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To: Lucky Charm who wrote (14464)9/27/1998 12:39:00 AM
From: ISOMAN  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 43774
 
HINDSIGHT IS 20/20

"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"

"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." --Llyod Kelvin , president, Royal Society, 1895

"I 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.

"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".

"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." -- popular mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949

"But what ...is it good for?" --Engineer at the advanced computing systems division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip.

"I think there is a world market for maybe five (5) computers." --Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943