Incorrect predictions

"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." – Decca Records, when they rejected The Beatles, 1962.

"I would sooner believe that two Yankee professors lied, than that stones fell from the sky." – Thomas Jefferson, U.S. President, on hearing reports of meteorites, 1790s.

"It doesn't matter what he does, he will never amount to anything." - Albert Einstein's teacher to his father, 1895

"Just so-so in center field." – New York Daily News, after the premiere of Willie Mays, 1951.

"A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make." – Response to Debbi Fields' idea of starting Mrs. Fields' Cookies.

"A rocket will never be able to leave the Earth's atmosphere." – New York Times, 1936.

"Nuclear-powered vacuum cleaners will probably be a reality in 10 years." – Alex Lewyt, president of vacuum cleaner company Lewyt Corp., in the New York Times in 1955.

"Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote." – Grover Cleveland, U.S. President, 1905.

"Rail travel at high speed is not possible, because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia." – Dr Dionysius Lardner (1793-1859), professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy, University College London.

"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" – H. M. Warner, co-founder of Warner Brothers, 1927.