Roman Price posted:

" 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 (1955-2011) on attempts to get Atari and Hewlett-Packard interested in his and Steve Wozniak's personal computer.

The rest is history.

Never say never.