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on 22-Oct-03 03:54 PM
(From Netscape homepage ....)
THE WORLD'S WORST PREDICTIONS ...
Radio has no future. Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. X-rays will prove to be a hoax. - English scientist William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, 1899
I do not think that a flight across the Atlantic will be made in our time, and I include the youngest readers. - Rolls-Royce co-founder Charles Stewart Roll, around 1908 (Rolls-Royce engines eventually powered trans-Atlantic flights.)
I'm so healthy, I expect to live on and on. - Health guru J.I.Rodale, moments before he dropped dead during a taping of the Dick Cavett Show, 1971.
Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons. - Popular Mechanics, 1949.
Man will never reach the moon, regardless of all future scientific advances. - Radio pioneer Lee DeForest, Feb 25, 1957.
640K ought to be enough for anybody. - Bill Gates, 1981.
Forget it. No Civil War picture ever made a nickel. - MGM executive, advising against investing in "Gone With The Wind"
That the automobile has practically reached the limit of its development is suggested by the fact that during the past year no improvements of a radical nature has been introduced. - Scientific American, 1909
It will be gone by June. - Entertainment newspaper Variety on rock 'n' roll, 1955.
Everything that can be invented has been invented. - Charles H.Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office Of Patents, 1899.
There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever by obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will. - Albert Einstein, 1932.
The radio craze will die out in time. - Thomas Edison, 1922
Can't dance. Can't act. Can sing a little. - Notes from Fred Astaire's screen test.
Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further developments. - Roman engineer Julius Sextus Frontius, 10 A.D.
Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value. - Marechal Ferdinand Foch, French Professor of Military Strategy
The problem with television is that the people must sit and keep their eyes glued to the screen. The average American family hasn't time for it. - The New York Times, 1939.
Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy. - Drillers whom Edwin L.Drake tried to enlist to his project to drill for oil in 1859.
I see no advantage to the graphical user interface. - Bill Gates, 1984.
Families will soon own helicopters instead of cars. - Life magazine, 1979.
I cannot imagine any situation that would cause this ship to founder. - Captain E.J.Smith of the Titanic, 1906.
That virus is a pussycat. - Dr.Peter Dusenberg, professor of Molecular Biology at the University of California at Berkley, on HIV, 1988.
I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper. - Gary Cooper, after turning down the lead role in "Gone With The Wind."
Space travel is bunk. - Sir Harold Spencer Jones, Astronomer Royal of Great Britain, 1957, two weeks before the launch of Sputnik.
I have traveled the lenght 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.
You ought to go back to driving a truck. - Concert manager, firing Elvis Presley in 1954.
The world potential market for copying machines is 5,000 at most. - IBM to the founders of Xerox, 1959.
We don't need you. You haven't got through college yet. - Hewlett Packard's rejection of Steve Jobs, who later founded Apple Computers
It will be years - not in my time - before a woman will become Prime Minister. - Margaret Thatcher, 1974.
It does not matter what he does, he will never amount to anything. - Albert Einstein's teacher to his father, 1895.
I have always found strangers sexy. - Hugh Grant, six months before he was arrested with a prostitute in California.
It's a great invention, but who would want to use it anyway? - President Rutherford B.Hayes, after a demonstration of Bell's telephone.
Well informed people know it is impossible to transmit the voice over wires and that were it possible to do so, the thing would be of no practical value. - Boston Post, 1865.
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on 22-Oct-03 03:55 PM
It's a bad joke that won't last. Not with the winter coming. - Fashion designer CoCo Chanel on the miniskert, 1966.
By the year 2000 there will be pills that cure phobias. Fear of heights, crowds, strangers, closed-in spaces, even fear of flying will be a phobia of the past. - Marvin Cetron and Thomas O'toole, "Encounters with the Future", 1982.
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.
Television won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night. - Darryl F.Zanuck, head of 20th Century Fox, 1946.
We will bury you. - Nikita Khruschev, Soviet Premier, predicting communism would win over US capitalism, in 1958.
I'm saying that it's over. Right now. It cannot be mixed. Whatever it does, the Millennium Bug will bite us. - writer Gary North, early 1997.
No matter what happens, the US Navy is not going to be caught napping. - US Secretary of Navy, December 4, 1941. (three days later the Japanese airplanes destroyed the American battleships at Pearl Harbor.)
While theoretically and technically feasible television may be, commercially and financially it is an impossibility. - Lee DeForest, inventor,
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? - H.M.Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.
$100 million is way too much to pay for Microsoft. - IBM, 1982.
For the majority of people, smoking has a beneficial effect. - Dr.Ian G.Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, 1963
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. - Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943.
By 2000, more than 1,000 people will live and work on the moon, according to NASA predictions. - Omni Future Almanac, 1982.
The phonograph has no commercial value at all. - Thomas Edison
I don't think we should be too timid to say that at the end of the century, we're going to put a man on Mars; somebody's going to do it. - US Vice President SPiro Agnew, 1969.
Man will not fly for 50 years. - Wilbur Wright (1901), to brother Orville after a disappointing flying experiment. their first successful flight was in 1903.
We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy. - Simon Newcomb, astronomer, 1888.
Law will be simplified (over the next century). Lawyers will have diminished, and their fees will have been vastly curtailed. - Julius Henri Browne, journalist, 1893.
Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction. - Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872.
An impractical sort of fad, and has no place in the serious job of postal transportation. - Second Assistant US Postmaster General Paul Henderson on airmail, 1922.
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. - Ken Olson, president, chairman, and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977.
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on 22-Oct-03 04:27 PM
Dautari,
Interesting !!!
Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further developments. - Roman engineer Julius Sextus Frontius, 10 A.D.
Ha ha ha.
But seriously, he is indeed a great visionary who is able to see the future. How do you visualize something that does not exist as present? Worth some thought, huh? ;-)
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