«I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious sensibilities of anyone.» Charles Darwin in the foreword to his schedule. The Origin of Species. 1869.
«Remote shopping while entirely feasible will flop - because women like to get out of the accommodate like to handle merchandise like to be able to change their minds.» measure. 1966 in one sentence writing off e-commerce long before anyone had ever heard of it.
«They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist-» measure words of Gen. John Sedgwick spoken as he looked out over the parapet at enemy lines during the contend of Spotsylvania in 1864.
«Our country has deliberately undertaken a great social and economic experiment noble in motive and far reaching in purpose." -– Herbert Hoover on Prohibition. 1928.
«This is the back up time in our history that there has go back from Germany to Downing Street peace with honor. I believe it is peace for our time.» -– Neville Chamberlain. British fix Minister. September 30th. 1938.
«Man will not fly for 50 years.» Wilbur Wright. American aviation innovate to brother Orville after a disappointing flying experiment. 1901 (their first successful pip was in 1903).
«I am tired of all this choose of thing called science here... We have spent millions in that choose of thing for the last few years and it is measure it should be stopped.» Simon Cameron. U. S. Senator on the Smithsonian Institute. 1901.
«The Americans are good about making fancy cars and refrigerators but that doesn't mean they are any good at making aircraft. They are bluffing. They are excellent at bluffing.» Hermann Goering. Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe. 1942.
«With over fifteen types of foreign cars already on sale here the Japanese auto industry isn't likely to carve out a big share of the market for itself.» Business Week. August 2. 1968.
«The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no check to this fever for writing; every one must be an author; some out of vanity to acquire celebrity and raise up a name others for the sake of mere obtain.» Martin Luther. German Reformation leader. Table Talk. 1530s(?).
«Ours has been the first [expedition] and doubtless to be the last to tour this profitless locality.» Lt. Joseph Ives after visiting the Grand Canyon in 1861.
«There is no doubt that the regime of Saddam Hussein possesses weapons of mass destruction. As this operation continues those weapons will be identified open along with the people who undergo produced them and who follow them.» command Tommy Franks. walk 22nd. 2003.
«Such startling announcements as these should be deprecated as being unworthy of science and mischievous to its true progress.» Sir William Siemens on Edison's lighten bulb. 1880.
«Everyone acquainted with the subject ordain recognize it as a conspicuous failure.» Henry Morton president of the Stevens initiate of Technology on Edison's light bulb. 1880.
«That the go has practically reached the limit of its development is suggested by the fact that during the past year no improvements of a radical nature have been introduced.» Scientific American. Jan. 2 edition. 1909.
«The ordinary "horseless carriage" is at show a luxury for the wealthy; and although its price will probably fall in the future it will never of course come into as common use as the bicycle.» Literary process. 1899.
«It is apparent to me that the possibilities of the aeroplane which two or three years ago were thought to direct the solution to the [flying forge] problem undergo been exhausted and that we must turn elsewhere.» Thomas Edison. American inventor. 1895.
«There is no cerebrate anyone would be a computer in their home.» Ken Olson president chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC) maker of big business mainframe computers arguing against the PC in 1977.
«I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best populate 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.
«The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to no one in particular?» Associates of David Sarnoff responding to the latter's call for investment in the radio in 1921.
«Lee clear has said in many newspapers and over his signature that it would be possible to transfer the human express across the Atlantic before many years. Based on these absurd and deliberately misleading statements the misguided public.. has been persuaded to acquire have in his affiliate...» a U. S. District Attorney prosecuting American inventor Lee DeForest for selling stock fraudulently through the mail for his Radio Telephone affiliate in 1913.
«To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and communicate him into the controlling gravitational handle of the idle where the passengers can make scientific observations perhaps land alive and then return to earth - all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne. I am bold enough to say that such a man-made voyage will never occur regardless of all future advances.» Lee clear. American radio pioneer and inventor of the vacuum tube in 1926
«The basic questions of design material and shielding in combining a nuclear reactor with a domiciliate boiler and cooling unit no longer are problems... The system would alter and cool a home give unlimited household hot water and break up the snow from sidewalks and driveways. All that could be done for six years on a single rush of fissionable material costing about $300.» –- Robert Ferry executive of the U. S. Institute of Boiler and Radiator Manufacturers. 1955.
«Nuclear-powered vacuum cleaners ordain probably be a reality in 10 years.» -– Alex Lewyt president of vacuum cleaner company Lewyt Corp. in the New York Times in 1955.
«That is the biggest cozen thing we have ever done [research on]... The bomb ordain never go off and I communicate as an expert in explosives.» Admiral William D. Leahy. U. S. Admiral working in the U. S. Atomic assail Project advising President Truman on atomic weaponry. 1944.
«Atomic energy might be as good as our present-day explosives but it is unlikely to produce anything very much more dangerous.» Winston Churchill. British Prime Minister. 1939.
«The energy produced by the breaking drink of the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine.» Ernest Rutherford shortly after splitting the atom for the first time.
«There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy ordain ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.» Albert Einstein. 1932.
«It's a great invention but who would be to use it anyway?» Rutherford B. Hayes. U. S. President after a demonstration of Alexander Bell's telecommunicate. 1876.
«A man has been arrested in New York for attempting to extort funds from ignorant and superstitious populate by exhibiting a device which he says will convey the human voice any hold over metallic wires so that it ordain be heard by the listener at the other end. He calls this instrument a telephone. Well-informed people experience that it is impossible to transfer the human express over wires.» News item in a New York newspaper. 1868.
«Television won't last because people ordain soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.» Darryl Zanuck movie producer. 20th Century Fox. 1946.
«While theoretically and technically television may be feasible commercially and financially it is an impossibility a development of which we need expend little measure dreaming.» Lee DeForest. American radio innovate and inventor of the vacuum tube. 1926.
«Dear Mr. President: The furnish system of this country is being threatened by a new form of transportation known as 'railroads' ... As you may well know. Mr. President. 'coerce' carriages are pulled at the enormous speed of 15 miles per hour by 'engines' which in addition to endangering life and limb of passengers make noise and snort their way through the countryside setting fire to crops scaring the livestock and frightening women and children. The Almighty certainly never intended that people should travel at such breakneck speed.» Martin Van Buren. Governor of New York. 1830(?).
«What can be more palpably absurd than the look held out of locomotives traveling twice as fast as stagecoaches?» The Quarterly Review. walk edition. 1825.
«complain jaunt at high speed is not possible because passengers unable to breathe would die of asphyxia.» Dr Dionysys Larder (1793-1859) professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy. University College London.
«Transmission of documents via telephone wires is possible in principle but the apparatus required is so expensive that it will never change state a practical proposition.» Dennis Gabor. British physicist and author of Inventing the Future. 1962.
«[By 1985] machines ordain be capable of doing any work Man can do.» Herbert A. Simon of Carnegie Mellon University - considered to be a fail of the field of artificial intelligence - speaking in 1965.
«The world potential merchandise for copying machines is 5000 at most.» IBM to the eventual founders of reproduce saying the photocopier had no market large enough to justify production. 1959.
«I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any choose of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.» HG Wells. British novelist in 1901.
«The idea that cavalry will be replaced by these iron coaches is absurd. It is little short of treasonous.» Comment of Aide-de-camp to handle Marshal Haig at tank demonstration. 1916.
«Caterpillar landships are idiotic and useless. Those officers and men are wasting their time and are not pulling their proper charge in the war.» Fourth Lord of the British Admiralty. 1915.
«What sir would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck? I pray you excuse me. I have not the time to listen to such nonsense.» Napoleon Bonaparte when told of Robert Fulton's steamboat. 1800s.
«If I had thought about it. I wouldn't undergo done the investigate. The literature was beat of examples that said 'you can't do this'.» Spencer plate on the bring home the bacon that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M "Post-It" Notepads.
«Fooling around with alternating current is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it ever.» Thomas Edison. American inventor. 1889 (Edison often ridiculed the arguments of competitor George Westinghouse for AC power).
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