[Mb-civic] FW: What would they say now ?

[Reute]

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Subject: What would they say now ?

Subject: What Would THEY Say Now????????

1. Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." --
Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949.

2. "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." --
Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943.

3. "I 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.

4. "But what is it good for?" -- Engineer at the Advanced Computing
Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip.

5. "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
-- Ken Olson, president, chairman and found of Digital Equipment
Corp., 1977.

6. "This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously
considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of
no value" -- Western Union internal memo, 1876.

7. "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

8. "The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn
better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible." -- A Yale Univ.
management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing
reliable overnight delivery service. (Smith went on to found Federal
Express Corp.)

9. "Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" -- H.M. Warner, Warner
Brothers, 1927

10. "I'm just glad it will be Clark Gable who is falling on his face
and not Gary Cooper." -- Gary Cooper on his decision not to take the
leading role in "Gone With The Wind"

11. "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.

12. "We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out."
-- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962

13. You want to have consistent and uniform muscle development across
all of your muscles? It can't be done. It's just a fact of life. You
just have to accept inconsistent muscle development as an unalterable
condition of weight training." -- Response to Arthur Jones, who
solved the "unsolvable" problem by inventing Nautilus.

14. "Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau."
-- Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929

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

16. "Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction." --
Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872

17. 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, Surgeon-Extraordinary to Queen Victoria,
1873. and finally.......

18. 64K ought to be enough memory for anybody." Bill Gates, 1981



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