Things that make ya go Hmmmmmmmm????
> Reasons to Keep an Open Mind to New Ideas:
> "640K ought to be enough for anybody."
> -- Bill Gates, 1981
> "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.
>
> "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their
> home."
> --Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital
> Equipment Corp., 1977
>
> "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 management 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.
>
> "You want to have consistent and uniform muscle development
> across all of your muscles? It can't be done. It's just a
> fact of life. You just have to accept inconsistent muscle
> development as an unalterable condition of weight training."
> --Response to Arthur Jones, who solved the "unsolvable"
> problem by inventing Nautilus.
>
> "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.
>
> "Everything that can be invented has been invented."
> --Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents,
> 1899. |
