The first three predictions are courtesy of an article in the London Times by Tim Hames entitled Iraq - the best story of the year. Against all the odds, an optimistic prediction comes true“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers” (Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943)
“Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?” (H.M.Warner, the founder of Warner Brothers, defending the silent movie, 1927) (He may have had a point.)
“All attempts at artificial aviation are not only dangerous to life but doomed to failure from an engineering standpoint” (the Editor of The Times, 1905
"I believe...this war is lost." Dem. Senator Harry Reid
Read his piece. It's a shame we can't get U.S. journalists to recognize and report the signficance of the events in Iraq.
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