Predicting accurately is very difficult, especially the future.
Experts are little better then laymen.
FAMOUS PREDICTIONS .... BY "EXPERTS"
Here are some very serious comments made by so-called "experts" of the past that we can all laugh at now. Can we learn some lessons from their false dogmatism of the past?
"Everything that can be invented has been invented." --Charles H. Duell, Office of Patents, 1899.
"There will never be a bigger plane built." --A Boeing engineer, after the first flight of the 247, a twin engine plane that carried ten people.
"Ours has been the first, and doubtless to be the last, to visit this profitless locality." -- Lt. Joseph Ives after visiting the Grand Canyon in 1861.
"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.
"We don't like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out." --Decca executive, 1962, after turning down the Beatles.
"It will be years--not in my time--before a woman will become Prime Minister." --Margaret Thatcher, 1974.
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." --Ken Olson, president of Digital Equipment Corp. 1977.
"This telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication." --Western Union memo, 1876.
"I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper." --Gary Cooper, after turning down the lead role in Gone With The Wind.
"Market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make." --Response to Debbi Fields' idea of Mrs. Fields' Cookies.
"We don't need you. You haven't got through college yet." --Hewlett Packard excuse to Steve Jobs, who founded Apple Computers instead.
"I think there's a world market for about five computers." --Thomas J. Watson, chairman of the board of IBM.
"The bomb will never go off. I speak as an expert in explosives." --Admiral William Leahy, U.S. Atomic Bomb Project.
"Airplanes are interesting toys, but they are of no military value whatsoever." --Marechal Ferdinand Fock, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre.
Click on the link below for more predictions.
http://gideonz.tripod.com/articles/Experts.htm
Experts are little better then laymen.
FAMOUS PREDICTIONS .... BY "EXPERTS"
Here are some very serious comments made by so-called "experts" of the past that we can all laugh at now. Can we learn some lessons from their false dogmatism of the past?
"Everything that can be invented has been invented." --Charles H. Duell, Office of Patents, 1899.
"There will never be a bigger plane built." --A Boeing engineer, after the first flight of the 247, a twin engine plane that carried ten people.
"Ours has been the first, and doubtless to be the last, to visit this profitless locality." -- Lt. Joseph Ives after visiting the Grand Canyon in 1861.
"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.
"We don't like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out." --Decca executive, 1962, after turning down the Beatles.
"It will be years--not in my time--before a woman will become Prime Minister." --Margaret Thatcher, 1974.
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." --Ken Olson, president of Digital Equipment Corp. 1977.
"This telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication." --Western Union memo, 1876.
"I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper." --Gary Cooper, after turning down the lead role in Gone With The Wind.
"Market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make." --Response to Debbi Fields' idea of Mrs. Fields' Cookies.
"We don't need you. You haven't got through college yet." --Hewlett Packard excuse to Steve Jobs, who founded Apple Computers instead.
"I think there's a world market for about five computers." --Thomas J. Watson, chairman of the board of IBM.
"The bomb will never go off. I speak as an expert in explosives." --Admiral William Leahy, U.S. Atomic Bomb Project.
"Airplanes are interesting toys, but they are of no military value whatsoever." --Marechal Ferdinand Fock, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre.
Click on the link below for more predictions.
http://gideonz.tripod.com/articles/Experts.htm
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