"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."
--Popular Mechanics, 1949
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
--Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible."
--Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.
"Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction".
--Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872
"But what ... is it good for?
--Engineer at IBM, 1968
commenting on the microchip.
"640K ought to be enough for anybody."
--Bill Gates, 1981
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer
in their home."
--Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder
of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be
seriously considered as a means of communication.
The device is inherently of no value to us."
--Western Union internal memo, 1876.
"The wireless music box has no imaginable
commercial value. Who would pay for a message
sent to nobody in particular?"
--David Sarnoff's associates in response
to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.
"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.)
"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?"
--H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.
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Tripp:
I hope you have plastic on your chairs.
I just found the following article on the Al-Jazeera website.
Let me know when you stop laughing.
Crucial human brains gene discovered
Thursday 17 August 2006, 2:55 Makka Time, 23:55 GMT
Human brains are triple the size of chimp brains
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Scientists believe that they have found a key gene that helped the human brain evolve from our chimp-like ancestors.
In just a few million years, one area of the human genome seems to have evolved about 70 times faster than the rest of our genetic code. It appears to have had a role in a rapid tripling of the size of the brain's crucial cerebral cortex, according to an article published on Thursday in the journal Nature.
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Smartypants!
"I predict that within 100 years computers will be twice as powerful, 10,000 times larger, and so expensive that only the five richest kings in Europe will own them." - prof. j.i.q. frink, c. 1970
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