[djone]

Yeah I know this is old but remind yourself, the 'experts' are often more than not are really wrong.. "The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value, Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?"-David Sarnoff's associates (ie. RCA, RKO and NBC) in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920's"...

"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.)

[1066AD]

640K is enough memory for any computer - Bill Gates

[2banana]

“We don’t need Jews like Albert Einstein.” Adolf Hitler

(yes - I made that up)

[canuck_conservative]

“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)

[La Lydia]

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.

[Vince Ferrer]

"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons" Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949

Well, they don't.

[RegulatorCountry]

"I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders"

- Michael Dell on Apple Computer, October 6, 1997

[Lancey Howard]

“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)

[Mrs. Don-o]

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[catnipman]

Reminds me of some of the people I used to work with when I worked corporate.

[Tanniker Smith]

Frankly, would GWTW have been the same with Cooper instead of Gable?

[Fester Chugabrew]

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.

[HapaxLegamenon]

"Mr President, you are going to defeat Mitt Romney in a landslide."

- David Axelrod

[coloradan]

http://www.popsci.com/military-aviation-amp-space/article/2009-07/new-york-times-nasa-youre-right-rockets-do-work-space

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.”