Interesting Quotes - What's your impression ?

[rizen1]

Interesting Quotes - What's your impression ?​

"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value." --Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre

"Radio has no future." "X-rays are clearly a hoax". "The aeroplane is scientifically impossible."
- Royal Society president Lord Kelvin, 1897-99

"The atom bomb will never go off - and I speak as an expert in explosives." - U.S. Admiral William Leahy in 1945

"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

"A rocket will never be able to leave the earth's atmosphere." --The New York Times, 1936

"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
- Kristin Wilson, Nintendo, Inc., 1989

"Everything that can be invented has already been invented."
-- Charles H. Duell, director of the U.S. Patent Office, 1899

"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
~Ken Olson, founder, chairman & president of DEC, 1977

"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.

 

[rizen1]

I truly hope I've never made any comment that can be proven false in the future.

"Everything that can be invented has already been invented."
-- Charles H. Duell, director of the U.S. Patent Office, 1899

This would have to be my favorite, this proves that not everything we believe to be true to ourselves is factual. Inventions are tied to creativity and to make this statement was really declaring all creative ideas have come to an end. It's also arrogant, that he believed no one else in the world, could possibly be working on an invention during that time. Imagine how many great ideas died because others who had the power aligned themselves with the same thinking as Charles. " What is to be known is already known, so keep your ideas to yourself."

Very interesting.

 

[JoniSteele]

There is nothing wrong with being 50 as long as you are not trying to act 25. William Holden in the movie Sunset Boulevard