Posted on 12/24/2016 5:06:50 AM PST by sodpoodle
1.) “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 Field Marshal Haig, at tank demonstration, 1916
2.) “The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.” — Sir William Preece, Chief Engineer, British Post Office, 1878
3.) "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
4.) "Reagan doesn't have that presidential look." – United Artists executive after rejecting Reagan as lead in the 1964 film The Best Man
5.) "Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia." – Dr. Dionysius Lardner, 1830
6.) "The world potential market for copying machines is 5000 at most.” — IBM, to the eventual founders of Xerox, saying the photocopier had no market large enough to justify production, 1959
7.) "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." – Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
“Back in 1977 that was true. Until the software was created to go with it that people could use, there was no reason to have a computer at home.”
True, but I had one and a video terminal anyway. It took a lot of my money and all of the skills that I had at the time to build it.
Supposedly, Ben Franklin asked what use was a newborn baby or words to that effect when watching a manned balloon flight when he was asked if it was practical.
I had a REXXON in the early 80’s with 4 20” discs. We wrote our own code in Basic and maintained a complex database. Trained several disabled ladies to do date entry who went on to get good jobs.
"We can even imagine what new machinery for handling information may some day become: a small pocket instrument that we carry around with us, talking to it whenever we need to, and either storing information in it or receiving information from it."
At least SOME people got it right!
I have his ring-tone set on duck quacks.
B Gates
Bump for later!
I always have heard “nuclear engineer” for Carter. There are two definitions for engineer: equipment designer and guy who runs the engine. Carter was the second. Now anyone who could be approved by Admiral Rickover is going to be bright, but he was trained to operate a reactor, not design one.
How are non cursive trained yutes signing their name these days?
“I remember seeing Beschloss say that on a talk show around then. One of the others asked “What is Obama’s IQ?”. Beschloss just had this blank look like he couldn’t believe anyone would question that obvious truth and said “Uh, I don’t know”. “
I just wish Beschloss’s interrogator had the sense to ask Beschloss if he had checked Obama’s college records to see if it was listed there.
"The Times regrets the error," it said.
As Sir Winston Churchill once said,
“In his travels through life, man will occasionally stumble across a great and significant truth. Typically, he will just pick himself up and continue on.”
“X” as in Malcolm the 10th.
“X” as in Malcolm the 10th.
In 1987 I saw a memo from an NBC employee to his boss that noted: Cosby is putting together another TV show that looks like it won’t last long. So the Brooklyn sound stage will be available for use in the fall.
That show was The Cosby show which went on a 8 plus year run and was filmed at NBC’s Brooklyn studio that remained unavailble. This memo was part of some litigation about a failed studio in Manhattan which had alrady been booked for shows creating as shortage NY of studio space in 1980.
I menat to note the memo was written in 1980.
That will be a lot of X’s floating around then. I went to the cursive thread and it seems block letters will probably be how things will be signed in the future. Handwriting analysis experts might be a threatened vocation in the future.
I would like to personally thank whoever invented the MRI. I’ve been all but outright accused of faking my symptoms to get drugs. After seeing the results from the MRI, my doctor rushed an authorization to see a spine surgeon.
Nobody needs more than 64K...
LOL, perfect!!!
If you click the link you’ll see that. I was trying to be brief, so as not to hijack this magnificent thread.
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