EVERY GENERATION HAS ITS KNOW-IT-ALLS Here are some other historical quotes worth thinking about -- before we discount new scientific concepts as being impossible: The 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) Everything that can be invented has been invented. (Charles H. Duell, commissioner, US Office of Patents, 1899) I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. --- (Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943) The bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert in explosives. -- Adm. William Leahy, U.S. Atomic Energy Project, 1945. Landing and moving around on the moon offer so many serious problems for human beings that it may take science another 200 years to lick them. -- Science Digest, August, 1948. There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home. --- (Ken Olsen, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977) This is from David´s blog on Divinecosmos
Posted on: Mon, 03 Mar 2014 23:38:27 +0000
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