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silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
Deozaan:
Was the slow motion at the end really necessary? :huh:
Stoic Joker:
I'm confused, is there supposed to be another usage for those Apple Tablettes?
KynloStephen66515:
IainB:
I presume these are all true...
Predictions: (Or, "I wish I hadn't said that."
"Man will never reach the moon regardless of all future scientific advances."
-- Dr. Lee DeForest, "Father of Radio & Grandfather of Television."
"The bomb will never go off. I speak as an expert in explosives."
-- Admiral William Leahy , US Atomic Bomb Project
"There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom."
-- Robert Millikan, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1923
"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."
-- Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
-- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
"I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year."
--The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957
"But what is it good for?"
-- Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip.
"640K ought to be enough for anybody."
-- Bill Gates, 1981
"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.)
"I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper,"
--Gary Cooper on his decision not to take the leading role in "Gone With The Wind."
"A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make,"
-- Response to Debbi Fields' idea of starting Mrs. Fields' Cookies.
"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out,"
-- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.
"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible,"
-- Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.
"If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this,"
-- Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M "Post-It" Notepads.
"Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy,"
-- Drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to drill for oil in 1859.
"Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau."
-- Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University , 1929.
"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value,"
-- Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre , France .
"Everything that can be invented has been invented,"
-- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, US Office of Patents, 1899.
"The super computer is technologically impossible. It would take all of the water that flows over Niagara Falls to cool the heat generated by the number of vacuum tubes required."
-- Professor of Electrical Engineering, New York University
"I don't know what use any one could find for a machine that would make copies of documents. It certainly couldn't be a feasible business by itself."
-- the head of IBM, refusing to back the idea, forcing the inventor to found Xerox.
"Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction."
-- Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse , 1872
"The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon,"
-- Sir John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon, appointed Surgeon-Extraordinary to Queen Victoria 1873.
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
-- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977.
Renegade:
^^ About those predictions...
They are kind of fun to laugh at, but while reading, I couldn't help but think that it was rather disingenuous to laugh so much. For example:
"Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau."
-- Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University , 1929.
Well, is that in 1929 dollars? The US dollar has lost over 96% of its value since 1913 or so. And can the stocks be compared adequately? I think that context makes that a bit more reasonable than say Bill Gates' 640K comment, where he didn't account for porn. :P
I'm curious about what he meant there though, as I can imagine scenarios where that would be true, and others where it's just silly.
"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value,"
-- Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre , France .
Air power was only of real military value arguably by the Vietnam era, but only tactically by the first Gulf War. Proof? 75% of all casualties on D-Day were from artillery. Air power had no real strategic effect in WWII (German factories were up and running very quickly after being bombed). (I know someone is going to not like this argument -- please just go read up on the effects of air power in WWII as it's been covered by people much better than me at explaining it.) The primary purpose of air power then was for terror, which the Germans improved with the Stukkas. You can look at military analysis of things like the Crocodile flame thrower where they perfectly well state that the purpose of the weapon is for terror. Fear is a great weapon.
I don't know when he said that, but he died in 1929, so it really was true then.
But, those quotes were certainly entertaining! :D
I like this one:
"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."
-- Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949
Hey! It's true~! :D
If I may throw out a quick one for today... Adherents to the 2nd law of thermodynamics...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_law_of_thermodynamics
The second law of thermodynamics states that the entropy of an isolated system never decreases, because isolated systems spontaneously evolve towards thermodynamic equilibrium -- the state of maximum entropy.
--- End quote ---
From some reading I've been doing, that only applies to flat space-time, and not to curved space-time. It may well be added to that list at some point in the future. :D We'll see.
Oh yeah... And this:
"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out,"
-- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.
Pfft~! Anyone who hates guitars is just WRONG~! (See my sig. ;) ) (Total bias there!)
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