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Selected Quote “The important thing is not to stop questioning.”
Albert Einstein
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“The important thing is not to stop questioning.”
Albert Einstein |
(These are not 'bad guys', merely proof that even 'experts' talk utter claptrap sometimes) “Radio has no future.
Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. X-rays will prove to be a hoax.” William Thomson — Lord Kelvin One time President of the Royal Society 1899 “Airplanes are interesting toys, but they are of no military value whatsoever.”
Marechal Ferdinand Fock, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre “There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.”
Albert Einstein, 1932 “The bomb will never go off. I speak as an expert in explosives.”
Admiral William Leahy, U.S. Atomic Bomb Project. “We don't like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out.”
Decca executive, 1962, after turning down the Beatles. “There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.”
Ken Olsen, President, Digital Equipment, 1977 “We don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.”
Hewlett Packard rejecting Steve Jobs, who founded Apple Computers instead. |
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