On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 12:14, District Webmaster wrote: > "Man will never reach the moon regardless of all future scientific > advances." -- Dr. Lee DeForest, Inventor of TV > Didn't Philo T. Farnsworth invent the TV?
> "The bomb will never go off. I speak as an expert in explosive." -- > Admiral William Leahy, U.S. Atomic Bomb Project > > "There is no likehood man can ever tap the power of the atom." -- Robert > Millikan, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1923 > > "Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." -- Popular > Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949 > > > "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." -- Thomas > Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943 > > "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 > > "But what ... is it good for?" -- Engineer at the Advanced Computing > Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip. > > "640K ought to be enough for anybody." -- Bill Gates, 1981 > > > "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. > > "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. > > "The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better > than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible." -- A Yale University management > professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight > delivery service. (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.) > > "I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not > Gary Cooper." -- Gary Cooper on his decision not to take the leading > role in "Gone With The Wind." > > "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. > > > "We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." -- > Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962. > > "Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." -- Lord Kelvin, > president, Royal Society, 1895. > > "If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The > literature was full of examples that said you can't do this." -- Spencer > Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M "Post-It" > Notepads. > > "So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even > built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? > Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll > come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to > Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got > through college yet.'" -- Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on > attempts to get Atari and H-P interested in his and Steve Wozniak's > personal computer. > > "Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and > reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum against > which to react. He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in > high schools." -- 1921 New York Times editorial about Robert Goddard's > revolutionary rocket work. > > > "Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? > You're crazy." -- Drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his > project to drill for oil in 1859. > > "Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau." -- > Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929. > > "Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value." -- Marechal > Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre. > > "Everything that can be invented has been invented." -- Charles H. > Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899. > > "Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction." -- Pierre > Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872 > > > "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, appointed Surgeon-Extraordinary to Queen Victoria 1873. > > and last but not least... > > "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." -- Ken > Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 > > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/20/03 11:49 AM >>> > How about a poster with famous quotes: > > I invented the internet. -- Al Gore > 512K is all the memory anyone would ever need -- Bill Gates > Linux stole our IP -- SCO > > So I need a few other quotes that are obviously wrong, and humorous now. > > Ash > > Frank Sorenson wrote: > > --- > >>From the land of SCOdor: > > One *nix to rule them all! > > --- > > Stop polluting my air with whatever you're smoking > > --- > > Boycott SCO's customer > > --- > > There is no SCOurce > > --- > > SCO IP: "Hello World" > > --- > > That depends on what your meaning of source is > > --- > > And SCO filed the lawsuit with a straight face? > > --- > > 1987 Bambi Meets Godzilla > > 2003 SCO Meets IBM > > --- > > Since when is extortion a "new and innovative licensing program" (see > > www.sco.com) > > --- > > 2002 IBM: $82 Billion, SCO: $-24 Million > > 2003 IBM: $82 Billion, SCO: $-24 Million and a good cleaning > > --- > > SCO - Playing > > IBM - Fire > > --- > > Hey Bush, SCO has Weapons of Unix Destruction > > --- > > SCO - Run by McBribe > > --- > > Hello, my name is Tux. You killed my Linux. Prepare to DIE! > > --- > > Who did you want to sue today? > > --- > > I see that your source is as big as mine. > > --- > > > > more later (If I can come up with more) > > > > Frank > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Frank Sorenson - KD7TZK > > CSR Computer Science Department > > Brigham Young University > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > ____________________ > > BYU Unix Users Group > > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > > > > > > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -- Need an Open Source Genealogy tool? 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