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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.



True! as I have learned timing is everything.




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