Below are quotes from people who have had a very
restricted vision, with hindsight their comments can be
used as powerful examples of what can happen if you
don't allow creative thoughts to flourish.


"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5
tons." --Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless
march of science, 1949
"I think there is a world market for maybe five
computers." --Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
"I have traveled the length and breadth of this country
and talked with the best people, and I can assure you
that data processing is a fad that won't last out the
year." --The editor in charge of business books for
Prentice Hall, 1957
"But what ... is it good for?" --Engineer at the Advanced
Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting
on the microchip.
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in
their home." --Ken Olson, president, chairman and
founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be
seriously considered as a means of communication. The
device is inherently of no value to us." --Western Union
internal memo, 1876.
"The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial
value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in
particular?" --David Sarnoff's associates in response to
his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.
"The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in
order to earn better than a 'C,' the idea must be
feasible." --A Yale University management professor in
response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable
overnight delivery service. (Smith went on to found
Federal Express Corp.)
"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" --H. M.
Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.
"I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face
and not Gary Cooper." --Gary Cooper on his decision not
to take the leading role in "Gone With the Wind."
"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.
"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the
way out." --Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles,
1962.
"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." --Lord
Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.
"If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the
experiment. The literature was full of examples that said
you can't do this." --Spencer Silver on the work that led
to the unique adhesives for 3-M "Post-It" Notepads.
"So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this
amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and
what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to
you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come
work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to
Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need
you. You haven't got through college yet.'" --Apple
Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get
Atari and H-P interested in his and Steve Wozniak's
personal computer.

"Professor Goddard does not know the relation between
action and reaction and the need to have something
better than a vacuum against which to react. He seems
to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high
schools." --1921 New York Times editorial about Robert
Goddard's revolutionary rocket work.
"You want to have consistent and uniform muscle
development across all of your muscles? It can't be
done. It's just a fact of life. You just have to accept
inconsistent muscle development as an unalterable
condition of weight training." --Response to Arthur
Jones, who solved the "unsolvable" problem by
inventing Nautilus.
"Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and
find oil? You're crazy." --Drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried
to enlist to his project to drill for oil in 1859.
"Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently
high plateau." --Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics,
Yale University, 1929.
"Aeroplanes are interesting toys but of no military
value." --Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of
Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre.
"Everything that can be invented has been invented." --
Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents,
1899.
"Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction". --
Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872
"The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be
shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane
surgeon". --Sir John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon,
appointed Surgeon-Extraordinary to Queen Victoria
1873.
"640K ought to be enough for anybody." -- Bill Gates,
1981

Source www.mycoted.com/Creativity_Quotes

This goes to show that nothing is impossible. Imagine how funny this quotes are in our present day because some people took the courage to say "why not?" Back then. Cheers