PREDICTIONS
Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 8:49 pm
I thought ya'll might enjoy all of them, and geezer can prove everyone of them true.
"EXPERTS" TELL IT LIKE THEY THOUGHT IT WAS AND OTHER EXERCISES IN DISCOURAGEMENT
"Man will never reach the moon regardless of all
future scientific advances." -- Dr. Lee DeForest,
"Father of Radio & Grandfather of Television."
"The bomb will never go off. I speak as an expert in
explosives." - - Admiral William Leahy, US Atomic
Bomb Project
"There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power
of the atom." -- Robert Millikan, Nobel Prize in
Physics, 1923
"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5
tons." -- Popular Mechanics, forecasting the
relentless march of science, 1949
"I think there is a world market for maybe five
computers " -- --- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM,
1943
"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." -- The editor in charge of
business books for Prentice Hall, 1957
"But what is it good for?" -- Engineer at the
Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968,
commenting on the microchip.
"640K ought to be enough for anybody." -- Bill
Gates, 1981
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.
"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.
"The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in
order to earn better than a 'C,' the idea must be
feasible," -- A Yale University manage ment
professor in response to Fred Smith's paper
proposing reliable overnight delivery service.
(Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.)
"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."
"A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market
research reports say America likes crispy cookies,
not soft and chewy cookies like you make," --
Response to Debbi Fields' idea of starting Mrs.
Fields' Cookies.
"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on
the way out," -- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the
Beatles, 1962.
Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible," --
Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.
"If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the
experiment. The literature was full of examples
that said you can't do this," - - Spencer Silver on
the work that led to the unique adhesives for
3-M "Post-It" Notepads .
"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.
"Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently
high plateau." - - Irving Fisher, Professor of
Economics, Yale University, 1929.
"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military
value," -- Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of
Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre, France.
"Everything that can be invented has been invented,"
-- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, US Office of
Patents, 1899.
"The super computer is technologically impossible.
It would take all of the water that flows over
Niagar a Falls to cool the heat generated by the
number of vacuum tubes required." -- Professor of
Electrical Engineering, New York University
"I don't know what use any one could find for a
machine that would make copies of documents. It
certainly couldn't be a feasible business by
itself." -- the head of IBM, refusing to back the
idea, forcing the inventor to found Xerox.
"Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous
fiction." -- Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology
at Toulouse, 1872
"The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever
be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane
surgeon," -- Sir John Eric Ericksen, British
surgeon, appointed Surgeon-Extraordinary to Queen
Victoria 1873.
And last but not least...
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in
their home." ;-- Ken Olson, president, chairman and
founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
mark still-no-hovercars Bailey
"EXPERTS" TELL IT LIKE THEY THOUGHT IT WAS AND OTHER EXERCISES IN DISCOURAGEMENT
"Man will never reach the moon regardless of all
future scientific advances." -- Dr. Lee DeForest,
"Father of Radio & Grandfather of Television."
"The bomb will never go off. I speak as an expert in
explosives." - - Admiral William Leahy, US Atomic
Bomb Project
"There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power
of the atom." -- Robert Millikan, Nobel Prize in
Physics, 1923
"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5
tons." -- Popular Mechanics, forecasting the
relentless march of science, 1949
"I think there is a world market for maybe five
computers " -- --- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM,
1943
"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." -- The editor in charge of
business books for Prentice Hall, 1957
"But what is it good for?" -- Engineer at the
Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968,
commenting on the microchip.
"640K ought to be enough for anybody." -- Bill
Gates, 1981
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.
"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.
"The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in
order to earn better than a 'C,' the idea must be
feasible," -- A Yale University manage ment
professor in response to Fred Smith's paper
proposing reliable overnight delivery service.
(Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.)
"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."
"A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market
research reports say America likes crispy cookies,
not soft and chewy cookies like you make," --
Response to Debbi Fields' idea of starting Mrs.
Fields' Cookies.
"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on
the way out," -- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the
Beatles, 1962.
Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible," --
Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.
"If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the
experiment. The literature was full of examples
that said you can't do this," - - Spencer Silver on
the work that led to the unique adhesives for
3-M "Post-It" Notepads .
"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.
"Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently
high plateau." - - Irving Fisher, Professor of
Economics, Yale University, 1929.
"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military
value," -- Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of
Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre, France.
"Everything that can be invented has been invented,"
-- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, US Office of
Patents, 1899.
"The super computer is technologically impossible.
It would take all of the water that flows over
Niagar a Falls to cool the heat generated by the
number of vacuum tubes required." -- Professor of
Electrical Engineering, New York University
"I don't know what use any one could find for a
machine that would make copies of documents. It
certainly couldn't be a feasible business by
itself." -- the head of IBM, refusing to back the
idea, forcing the inventor to found Xerox.
"Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous
fiction." -- Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology
at Toulouse, 1872
"The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever
be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane
surgeon," -- Sir John Eric Ericksen, British
surgeon, appointed Surgeon-Extraordinary to Queen
Victoria 1873.
And last but not least...
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in
their home." ;-- Ken Olson, president, chairman and
founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
mark still-no-hovercars Bailey