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Interesting
Quotes "Computers
in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." --Popular Mechanics,
forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949 "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. "Who
the hell wants to hear actors talk?" --H.M. Warner, Warner
Brothers, 1927. "I'm
just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face, 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." --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. "So
we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even
built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding
us? Or, we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary,
we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So, then, we went
to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You
haven't got through college yet.'" --Apple Computer Inc. founder
Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and H-P interested in his and
Steve Wozniak's personal computer. "Drill
for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're
crazy." --Drillers whom 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. "Louis
Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction". --Pierre
Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872 "640K
ought to be enough for anybody." -- Bill Gates, 1981 "$100 million dollars is way too much to pay for Microsoft." -- IBM, 1982 |
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