Bill Gates (2004): "Two years from now spam will be solved."
You Tube Founder Steve Chen: "(I am worried that) there's just not that many videos people want to watch."
Robert Metcalfe (inventor of ethernet): "I predict the Internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse."
Clifford Stoll (astronomer and author of Silicon Snake Oil (1995): "Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab, predicts that we'll soon use books and newspapers straight over the Internet. Uh, sure!"
Steve Ballmer, former Microsoft CEO (2007): "There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance."
Steve Jobs (2008) in discussing Amazon Kindle: "The whole conception is flawed at the top because people don't read any more."