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07-12-2005, 10:55 PM
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their
home."
Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital
Equipment Corp., 1977
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"640K ought to be enough for anybody."
Bill Gates, 1981 apocryphal
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"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.
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"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.
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"Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find
oil? You're crazy."
Drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to
drill for oil in 1859.
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"Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high
plateau."
Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929.
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"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value."
Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole
Superieure de Guerre.
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"Everything that can be invented has been invented."
Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.
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"The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut
from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon".
Sir John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon, appointed Surgeon-
Extraordinary to Queen Victoria 1873.
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" سأجعل نصف اقباط مصر شحاذين والنصف الاخر ماسحي احذية"
محمد انور السادات 1977 رئيس جمهورية مصر العربية
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home."
Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital
Equipment Corp., 1977
==================================
"640K ought to be enough for anybody."
Bill Gates, 1981 apocryphal
==================================
"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.
==================================
"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.
===================================
"Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find
oil? You're crazy."
Drillers who 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.
==================================
"The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut
from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon".
Sir John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon, appointed Surgeon-
Extraordinary to Queen Victoria 1873.
==================================
" سأجعل نصف اقباط مصر شحاذين والنصف الاخر ماسحي احذية"
محمد انور السادات 1977 رئيس جمهورية مصر العربية
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