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| "Everything that can be invented has been invented" -Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. patent office, 1899 (attributed) "Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." -Popular Mechanics, 1949 "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." -Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943 "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. "Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau." -Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929. "640K ought to be enough for anybody." -Bill Gates, 1981 "You'd better learn secretarial skills or else get married." - Modelling agency, rejecting Marilyn Monroe in 1944. "All saved from Titanic after collision." - New York Evening Sun, April 15 1912. "The atom bomb will never go off - and I speak as an expert in explosives." - U.S. Admiral William Leahy in 1945. "And for the tourist who really wants to get away from it all, safaris in Vietnam." - Newsweek magazine, predicting popular holidays for the late 1960s. | |
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| “Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.” -Buddha "Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on the earth. I said then and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free." -Eugene V. Debs "Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth." -Benjamin Disraeli | |
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