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Great moments in history

Sunday, 14 Jul, 2006 0

“The world is coming to an end in 1950.” –Historian Henry Adams, 1903

“But what … is it good for?”
–Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip.

“Television won’t last because people will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.”
–Producer Darryl Zanuck, 20th Century Fox, 1946

“Well-informed people know it is impossible to transmit the voice over wires and that were it possible to do so, the thing would be of no practical value.”
–Boston Post, 1865

“You ain’t going nowhere, son. You ought to go back to driving a truck.”
–The Grand Ole Opry’s Jim Denny to Elvis Presley, 1954

“That rainbow song’s no good. Take it out.”  – MGM memo after first showing of The Wizard Of Oz

“Everything that can be invented has already been invented.”
— Charles H. Duell, director of the U.S. Patent Office, 1899

 



 

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