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Famous Quotes
You belong to a small select
group of confused people -fortune cookie
I started out with nothing, I
still have most of it. -Michael Davis on the Tonight Show
Sometimes I ge the feeling that
the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that is not true. Some
of the smaller countries are neutral. -Robert Orton
The secret of managing is to
keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided. -Casey
Stengel
This taught me a lesson, but
I'm not sure what it is -John McEnroe
The people who change best and
fastest are the ones who have no choice. -Robert Frey
Nothing made sense and neither
did everything else -Hoseph Heller
"Computers in the future may
weigh no more than 1.5 tons."--Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949
"1 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.
"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
"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 trough college yet."'
--Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and HP
interested in his and Steve Wozniak's personal computer.