A remarkably close prediction:

“There is no question about it.  In the next 40 years a Negro can achieve the same position that my brother has.”

Robert F. Kennedy (stated in 1961, when Robert was Attorney General, and while his brother John was President. Barack Obama was elected 47 years later)

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Here’s a quote that struck me for how really wrong it was:

“[According to Steve Jobs] Apple was supposed to become a wonderful consumer products company. This was a lunatic plan. High tech could not be designed and sold as a consumer product.”
John Sculley, CEO of Apple from 1983 to 1993, incorrectly understanding the potential of Apple, as stated in his 1987 memoir “Odyssey”

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