Of course, here's what I really think:
>>Today Alan Greenspan was on TV again and claimed that we are now in a "new economy" thanks to the computer..............you'll see that this notion is one of the biggest jokes foisted on the American public.--tradermike_1999, 2002<<
I do not think that the wireless waves I have discovered will have any practical application.--Heinrich Rudolf Hertz
X-rays will prove a hoax.--William Thompson, Lord Kelvin, president of England's Royal Society
It doesn't matter what he does, he will never amount to anything.--Albert Einstein's teacher to his father, 1895.
In less than 25 years the motor-car will be obsolete.-- Sir Philip Gibbs, 1928.
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.--Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1958, attributed.
Nor are computers going to get much faster.--Dr. Arthur L. Samuel, New Scientist, 1964.
I'm going to live to be one hundred.--Health writer Jerome Rodale, 1971. He died the next day at age 51.
Other technologies, like electronic mail, worked as promised but failed to overcome human habits. ‘E-mail' was... readily embraced by techie types, [but] it was shunned by secretaries and others because it proved too difficult to use.--Time Magazine, 1991.
The Internet... will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse.--Bob Metcalfe, InfoWorld, 1995.
And my personal favorite:
Nothing of importance happened today.--July 4, 1776 diary entry of King George III of England. |
