Wish I hadnt said that

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Wish I hadnt said that
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Statement 1

• Flight by machines heavier than air is
  impractical and insignificant, if not utterly
  impossible.
• Simon Newcomb, an astronomer of some note, 1902

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Statement 2

• It is an idle dream to imagine that automobiles
  will take the place of railways in the long
  distance movement of passengers.
• American Railroad Congress, 1913

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Statement 3

• There is no likelihood that man can ever tap the
  power of the atom.
• Robert Millikan, Nobel prize winner in physics,
  1920

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Statement 4

• There is no reason for any individual to have a
  computer in their home.
• Ken Olson, President of DEC, 1977

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Statement 5

• Radio has no future
• Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible
• X-rays will prove to be a hoax
• Lord Kelvin, English scientist (1824-1907)

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Statement 6

• Space travel is utter bilge
• Sir Richard van der Riet Wooley, the Astronomer
  Royal, 1956

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Statement 7

• Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
• Harry Warner, Founder, Warner Bothers Studio, 1927

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Statement 8

• Rail travel at high speeds is not possible
  because passengers, unable to breathe, would die
  of asphyxia
• Dionysius Lardner, English scientist (1793-1859)

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Statement 9

• While theoretically and technically television
  may be feasible, commercially and financially I
  consider it an impossibility
• Lee De Forest, Inventor (1873-1961)

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Statement 10

• You aint going nowhere son - you ought to go
  back to drivin a truck
• Jim Denny, Manager
• Grand Ole Opry
• Upon firing Elvis Presley after one performance
  on September 25, 1954

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Statement 11

• Youd better learn secretarial work or else get
  married
• Emmeline Snively, Director
• Blue Book Modeling Agency
• Advice to would-be model Marilyn Monroe in 1944

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Statement 12

• People will soon get tired of a staring at a
  plywood box every night
• Darryl F. Zanuck in 1944 commenting on the future
  of television

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Statement 13

• Everything that can be invented has been invented
• Charles H. Duell, US Commissioner of Patents, 1899

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Statement 14

• Computers in the future may perhaps weigh only
  1.5 tons
• Popular Mechanics, forecasting the development of
  computer technology, 1949

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Statement 15

• We dont like their sound. Groups of guitars are
  on the way out.
• Decca Records, rejecting the Beatles, 1962

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Statement 16

• for the majority of people, the use of tobacco
  has a beneficial effect
• Dr. Ian G. MacDonald, Los Angeles Surgeon,
  quoted in Newsweek, November 18, 1963

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My prediction of a statement that will be added
in about 10 years

• By the end of 2000, the time period that we
  looked at, e-commerce was too small to have much
  of an impact (on the US economy)
• Lenny Mendonca, Chairman, McKinsey Global
  Institute

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More evidence of large growth

• Total e-tailing sales are expected to top US39
  billion for 2002, up from US30 billion in 2001
• Source Jupiter Media Metrix Inc.

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More evidence of large growth

• Online sales were 1.8 of retail sales in the USA
  in 2001, but expected to be 5 within four years
• Source Anthony Noto, Internet analyst at
  Goldman, Sachs Co.

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