Once…
Hic deficit orbis - here the world ends.
Inscription on old maps at Herculus columns (Gibraltar)

1644
Soon it will be quite common to buy a pair of flying wings for flying, just as we buy a pair of riding boots today.
English naturalist Glanville, 1644

1700
The President of the Academy is also obliged to make every effort to exterminate werewolves, permons, dragons, water mats and labyrinths. In order for the people to be effectively encouraged to do this godly activity, a reward of six tolars is announced for the search for each of these monsters, whether it is revealed in holes, pits, caves, or lakes.
From the charter of the Berlin Academy of Sciences in 1700 (!!!!)

1782
It has been proven that it is not at all possible for a person to rise into the air, or at least stay in it.
Academician Lalande in the Journal de Paris, less than a year before the takeoff of the Montgolfier with a human crew, 1782

1789
We could not believe an endless series of discoveries and the brightest theories if fire, air, water and earth were no longer recognized as simple elements.
Academician Baumé, inventor of the densitometer, after Lavosier's announcement of the decomposition of air into oxygen and nitrogen, 1789

1797
The proposal must be rejected primarily because no flawless lamp can of course not burn.
From the review of the gas lighting project submitted by Philip Lebon of the French Academy of Sciences in 1797

1802
Fantastics who want to send light into the streets in gas pipes could just as well think of illuminating London with a piece of the moon.
Renowned physicist Wollaston, 1802

1803
All major European cities are full of adventurers and designers. They run around the world and offer monarchs supposed inventions that exist only in their imagination. They are the very charlatans and crooks who only run for money. The American is one of them. I don't want to hear another word about Fulton.
Napoleon Bonaparte on the offer of the invention of the steamer by Robert Fulton 1803.

1812
Why did you warn me up to five minutes after the twelfth, that this project can change the world?
Napoleon Bonaparte on the offer of the invention of the steamer by Robert Fulton 1812.

1821
I was held back by a young man from Birmingham. It turned out that he was trying to get a patent for a planting machine. We couldn't laugh at a project so foolish enough.
Times, 1821.

1825
What can be more absurd than the idea that locomotives could run twice as fast as postal contractors?
Quaterly Review, 1825

1832
I propose the abolition of the patent institute. Everything has already been invented and nothing new can be discovered.
Director of the Patent Office in Washington, 1832

1837
The introduction of the railways was at the expense of public health, moving faster 41 kilometers per hour would inevitably cause concussions and madness for passengers, and dizziness and nausea in the audience at the track. If the railway were to be introduced, it would be necessary to hide it between two fences as high as a locomotive and wagons.
Bavarian Royal Medical Council, 1837

1837
Even if the propeller could really move the ship, it would not work in practice because it is at the stern and therefore it is not possible to steer the ship.
Conclusion of Commission of British Admiralty Experts, 1837

1842
The idea of ​​introducing regular seafaring is no different from the idea of ​​traveling to the moon.
Professor of Physics Larder of the University of London, 1842

1851
Wanting to capture fleeting mirror images is not only impossible, as thorough German experiments have shown, but also blasphemy against God. Man was created in the image of God, and the image of God cannot be captured by any human machine.
Welcome to the photo by Leipziger Anzeiger, 1839

1857
We understand the possibility of studying the shape of stars as well as their distances and motions, while we will never and in any way be able to study their chemical composition.
Auguste Comte, 1857 (spectroscope was invented and used in astronomy in five years)

1851
The sewing machine is the curiosity of ice for laughter.
Times, 1851

1859
Diesel wells? Do you mean drilling into the ground and finding oil? Are you crazy?
Edwin L. Drake drilling experts have tried to get the oil drilling, 1859

1872
The theory of microorganisms by Louise Pasteur is ridiculous nonsense.
Pierre Pachet, professor of physiology in Toulouse, 1872

1873
A wise and humane surgeon will never intervene in the abdomen, chest and brain.
Sir John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon, appointed Special Queen Surgeon, 1873

1876
The telephone device has too many drawbacks to be of any significance for communications. He has absolutely no prizes for us.
Western Union Memorandum, 1876

1878
Wife, I'm not going to cheat with a bruiser!
Academician Bouillaud March 11, 1878, at a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences physicist dr. Moncel, performing Edison's phonograph. Six months later, on September 30, in a similar session, he declared:
Even after a mature examination, I find that it is nothing more than a ventriloquity, because it is unacceptable that vulgar metal would replace a noble sound instrument with a human one.

1888
Electricity can never be a practical form of power because the losses in the line are too great. It would be easier to use rope driving belts that would run from the pulley to the pulley, so they would stretch for miles across the edge.
Excellent techn. Osborne Reynolds, 1888

1895
Flying means heavier than air are clear nonsense.
Lord Kelvin, President of the Royal Society, 1895

1905
Airplanes are interesting toys, but they lack military value.
Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategic Studies, Ecole Superieure de Guerre

1927
And who the hell would like to listen to as actors speak?
HM Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927

1928
We are only at the beginning of a period that will once be called a golden age. The business sector appears to have reached a consistently high level.
Irving Fisher, a professor of economics at Yale University, a year before the New York Stock Exchange crash and before the deepest crisis in the capitalist world began. 1928

1928
Shooting with a rocket to the moon will forever remain nonsense, and in this case a futile art, because such a rocket will never tell about its experiences. So why make crazy attempts if they serve at most high school students to worry about the laws of free fall with pencil and paper?
Outstanding astronomer and selenographer Philipp Fauth, 1928

1937
At the interface between the attractive force of the moon and the Earth, our weight would be zero. Flights in interplanetary space will only be possible once a means has been invented to prevent this weight loss. If it turns out that it is beyond our power, we will have to say goodbye to our dreams of space travel.
Volk und Welt, 1937

1943
"I think the world market is perhaps for five computers."
Thomas Watson, IBM Chief, 1943

1949
In the future, computers can weigh less than 1,5 tons.
Popular Mechanics, crossing the boundaries of science, 1949

1957
I have traveled a lot from this country and talked to the best brains and I can assure you that data processing is a momentary fashion that will not survive until next year.
Responsible editor of business publications for Prentice Hall, 1957

1962
We don't like the music and the guitar music is still in decline.
Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962

1968
Well,… .but what is it good for?
An engineer from the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM comments on a microchip, 1968

1977
There is no reason why someone would like to have a computer at home.
Ken Olson, President, CEO and Founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977

1980
So we went to Atari and said, "Look, we have such a great thing here, made from some of your parts, so what if you supported us financially? Or we'll give it to you. We want to work on it. Pay us, we'll do it for you, "and they said," No! "
So we went to Hewlett-Packard and they told us, "Look, you haven't finished school yet."
Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs tells how he and Steve Wozniak tried to get ATARI and HP for their personal computer.

1981
640 KB space should be enough for everyone.
Bill Gates 1981