#6 "There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home." –Ken Olson, President of Digital Equipment Corporation in 1977

Kenneth Harry Olsen was an American engineer who co-founded Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in 1957 with colleague Harlan Anderson.

In 1977, at the Convention of the World Future Society in Boston in 1977, he said “There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.” He was referring to having the computer run the house, with automated doors, voice-activated faucets et cetera. He had a computer in his home for general use and promulgated the idea.

#5 "There's just not that many videos I want to watch." –Steve Chen, co-founder of YouTube

Steve Chen is a Taiwanese American internet entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and previous Chief Technology Officer of the popular website YouTube.

"There's just not that many videos I want to watch," lamented Steve Chen, a co-founder of YouTube, in March 2005. At the time YouTube featured about 50 videos. Less than two years later, on November 13 2006, Google acquired YouTube for US$1.65 billion in Google stock.

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