> saying they will never happen feels probably just as non-sense. History hasn't been on the side of such absolute claims. I wish there was a collection of stu

> saying they will never happen feels probably just as non-sense. History hasn't been on the side of such absolute claims. I wish there was a collection of stubborn dismissals of things that did come to pass and became bigger and better than originally imagined, so we could point and laugh at those cynical sticks in the muds. Steve Ballmer's dismissal of the iPhone being a popular relatively recent case. I still remember that quote I discovered through Civilization, apparently made by some popular leader (Napoleon?) about steam engines: "You would make a ship of iron and without sails move by lighting a bonfire under its deck?? Absurd!"