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Quotations / The Most Ridiculous Famous Sayings
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Last Modified Mar 26, 2008 at 04:34 AM PDT by SciTechViewed 934 time(s)
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Hind sight is 20/20...as is clear from these famous quotes. You read them now and you will be amazed by the lack of foresight...
Surely these people need to eat their words now!!
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| -- | New York Times editorial about Robert Goddard's revolutionary rocket work; 1921 | Rocket Technology |
"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 ladle...
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| -- | Decca Recording Co., 1962 | Beatles | "We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." | On their rejection of the Beatles |
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| -- | Western Union internal memo, 1876 | Telephone | "This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." |
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| -- | Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968 | Microchip | "But what...is it good for?" | While commenting on the microchip |
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| -- | The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957 | Data Processing | "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." |
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| -- | published in "Popular Mechanics" in an article forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949 | Computers | "Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." |
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| A Yale University management professor | ? | FedEx | "The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible." | In response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service. (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.) |
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| Bill Gates | 1981 | Memory | "640K ought to be enough for anybody." |
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| Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents | 1899 | Inventions | "Everything that can be invented has been invented." |
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| David Sarnoff's associates | Responding to David's urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s | Radio | "The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?" |
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- cwarren, Mar 31, 2008 at 09:18 PM PDT said:
some of these quotes are preposterous in today's context!!
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