Winston
Lorenzo von Matterhorn
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The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a C, the idea must be feasible.
- Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service.
(Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.)
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.
"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.
Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons. - Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949
The bomb will never go off. I speak as an expert in explosives. - Admiral William Leahy, US Atomic Bomb Project
Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. - Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929.
The super computer is technologically impossible. It would take all of the water that flows over Niagara Falls to cool the heat by the number of vacuum tubes required. - Professor of Electrical Engineering, New York University
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. - Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction. - Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872
Everything that can be invented has been invented. - Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, US Office of Patents, 1899.
Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value. - Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre, France .
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.
We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. - Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.
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.
640K ought to be enough for anybody. - Bill Gates, 1981
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. - Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
Man will never reach the moon regardless of all future scientific advances. - Dr. Lee DeForest, Father of Radio & Grandfather of Television.
- Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service.
(Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.)
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.
"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.
Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons. - Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949
The bomb will never go off. I speak as an expert in explosives. - Admiral William Leahy, US Atomic Bomb Project
Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. - Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929.
The super computer is technologically impossible. It would take all of the water that flows over Niagara Falls to cool the heat by the number of vacuum tubes required. - Professor of Electrical Engineering, New York University
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. - Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction. - Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872
Everything that can be invented has been invented. - Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, US Office of Patents, 1899.
Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value. - Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre, France .
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.
We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. - Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.
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.
640K ought to be enough for anybody. - Bill Gates, 1981
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. - Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
Man will never reach the moon regardless of all future scientific advances. - Dr. Lee DeForest, Father of Radio & Grandfather of Television.