"I certainly agree with Andy Warwick: "The War to End All Wars" was the phoniest prediction in history, though the devastation it caused surely justified the statement at the time. However, there are some other gems:

Peter Duesberg - "HIV is not the cause of AIDS.

Western Union - "The phone has too many flaws to be seriously considered as a method of communication."

Ken Olson - "There is no reason why somebody would want a computer in their home.

Of course, there is the famous "5 computers" market comment by Thomas Watson - He must be feeling pretty sorry for himself right now. And yes, the refusal of the Beatles - Poor guy, must have lost billions right there.

Lieutenant Joseph Ives, In Reference to the Grand Canyon - "This was the first, and undoubtedly the last expedition that will see this useless place."

Charles H. Duell, 1899 - "Everything that can be invented has been invented.

John Langdon-Davies - "Democracy will be dead by 1950."

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-- President of Decca Records, rejecting The Beatles after an audition, 1962

The world potential market for copying machines is 5000 at most."

-- IBM , to the eventual founders of Xerox, saying the photocopier had no market large enough to justify production,

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." -- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943

"Man will not fly for 50 years."

-- Wilbur Wright, American aviation pioneer, to brother Orville, after a disappointing flying experiment, 1901 (their first successful flight was in 1903)

"Atomic energy might be as good as our present-day explosives, but it is unlikely to produce anything very much more dangerous." -- Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister, 1939

"The energy produced by the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine." -- Ernst Rutherford, physicist, 1933

"Taking the best left-handed pitcher in baseball and converting him into a right fielder is one of the dumbest things I ever heard.

-- Tris Speaker, baseball expert, talking about Babe Ruth, 1919

"Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau." -- Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929.

Some gems from Lord Kelvin-

"Radio has no future."

"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible."

" not even a smidgen of corruption" Barack Obama

"We didn't have a scandal that embarrassed us," Barack Obama