A ton of them aren't even shortsighted: "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943 At the time, there

A ton of them aren't even shortsighted: "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943 At the time, there wasn't even that large of a market. Watson definitely wasn't panning the technology, just noting (correctly) that the time wasn't right for a marketing push. Great ideas implemented too early aren't worth much at all.