Posted on 10/26/2012 7:40:44 PM PDT by djone
"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 System Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip....."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".....We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." -Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962..."Drill for oil?' You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy."--Driller who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to drill for oil in 1859...“No one will need more than 637 kb of memory for a personal computer. 640K ought to be enough for anybody.”-Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, in 1981
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"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.)
640K is enough memory for any computer - Bill Gates
“We don’t need Jews like Albert Einstein.” Adolf Hitler
(yes - I made that up)
“Flight by heavier-than-air machines will never be possible”
- Britain’s Lord Kelvin, late 1800s (Kelvin was at that time considered the world’s leading scientific authority)
Your last one is really the best. The person who actually gets out and does things versus the cheesy college professor with no knowledge of the real work who only yaks about it.
Well, they don't.
Ditto
- Michael Dell on Apple Computer, October 6, 1997
“Ruth made a grave mistake when he gave up pitching. Working once a week, he might have lasted a long time and become a great star.”
- Tris Speaker (on Babe Ruth’s future, 1921)
I hate that company. I enjoy watching
their stock in its death spiral.
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Reminds me of some of the people I used to work with when I worked corporate.
Frankly, would GWTW have been the same with Cooper instead of Gable?
Stevie Ray Vaughn was turned down by the owner of Alligator Records, but the label still did/does okay. I want to start a company of door-to-door salesmen selling NO SOLICITING signs, with a wide array of optional guns and dogs.
“I was convinced that folks would love to have their picture taken and send it to families and friends, but I wasn’t at all sure about sending poems”.. Joyce Hall, founder of Hallmark Cards
- David Axelrod
No...Cooper seemed morose in his roles...at least shy. Not the Rhett Butler I imagined when I read GWTW in HS.
No. Cooper is too relaxed and easy-going and aww-shucks kind of “cowboy” guy. Not the debonair sauve type Gable was.
JULY 17, 1969: On Jan. 13, 1920, Topics of The Times, an editorial-page feature of The New York Times, dismissed the notion that a rocket could function in a vacuum and commented on the ideas of Robert H. Goddard, the rocket pioneer, as follows.
“That Professor Goddard, with his ‘chair’ in Clark College and the countenancing of the Smithsonian Institution, does not know the relation of action to reaction, and of the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react — to say that would be absurd. Of course he only seems to lack the knowledge ladled out daily in high schools.”
Further investigation and experimentation have confirmed the findings of Isaac Newton in the 17th century and it is now definitely established that a rocket can function in a vacuum as well as in an atmosphere. The Times regrets the error.”
Cooper was too wooden, did not have nearly as much charisma as Gable and could not come close to Gable playing a debonair character like Butler.
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