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Thanks, Werner. I'll be sure to ask your opinion at the next boat show. For now, your quote belongs quite neatly in the list of stupid shit uninformed people h
by touringa 6y ago
Thanks, Werner. I'll be sure to ask your opinion at the next boat show.
For now, your quote belongs quite neatly in the list of stupid shit uninformed people have said while informed people are making things happen...
“[Regarding stars,] We can never learn their internal constitution, nor, in regard to some of them, how heat is absorbed by their atmosphere… [Regarding planets,] We can never know anything of their chemical or mineralogical structure; and, much less, that of organized beings living on their surface.”
–Auguste Comte, French philosopher, 1842
“Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.”
–Lord Kelvin, President of the Royal Society, 1895
“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.”
–IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
“Television won’t be able to hold onto any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.”
–Daryl Zanuck, co-founder of 20th Century Fox, 1946
“There is practically no chance communications space satellites will be used to provide better telephone, telegraph, television, or radio service inside the United States.”
–FCC Commissioner T. Craven, 1961
“There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.”
–Ken Olson, President of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977