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July 22nd, 2012, 11:12 PM
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#1 | | Historian
Joined: May 2012 Posts: 1,714 | Dumb Quotes And Worst Predictions Of All Time
Heres a thread for the Worst Quotes And Dumbest Predictions Of All Time, who knew that when they said it, they couldnt have been anymore of the mark.
“There is no need for any individual to have a computer in their home.”
Ken Olson, President of Digital Equipment Corp, in 1977
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July 22nd, 2012, 11:20 PM
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#2 | | Historian
Joined: Aug 2011 From: Texas Posts: 3,767 |
They couldn't hit an elephant at this dis.... Union General John Sedgwick, killed in battle in 1864.
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July 22nd, 2012, 11:27 PM
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#3 | | Scholar
Joined: Mar 2012 Posts: 639 |
"If they have come as ambassadors, they are too many. If as soldiers, they are too few."
Tigranes before Tigranocerta.
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July 22nd, 2012, 11:37 PM
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#4 | | Historian
Joined: May 2012 Posts: 1,714 |
"This invention will not work, people will get bored from starring at a plywood box in the corner of the room after 6 months" - Forgot his name (quotes about the tv)
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July 22nd, 2012, 11:42 PM
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#5 | | Academician
Joined: Jul 2012 Posts: 97 |
"What're you going to do? Shoot me?"
-Guess who
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July 22nd, 2012, 11:56 PM
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#6 | | Historian
Joined: Dec 2011 Posts: 1,200 |
President McKinley observing that the telephone is a wonderful device and one day every town would have one.
The head of the US patent office in 1902 asking the President to close his position as everything that could be invented had been
The head of the BBC declaring television was a 'flash in the pan'
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July 23rd, 2012, 03:00 AM
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#7 | | Historian
Joined: May 2012 Posts: 1,714 |
"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something." - Pancho Villa
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July 23rd, 2012, 04:05 AM
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#8 | | Historian
Joined: Jun 2012 From: Florida Posts: 1,272 |
Decca Records to the Beatles in 1962: "Guitar groups are on the way out, Mr. Epstein.". Brian Epstein being the Beatles manager.
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July 23rd, 2012, 04:09 AM
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#9 | | Historian
Joined: Jan 2012 From: City 17 Posts: 2,925 |
how about gary kildall who did not want to stop his vacation and rejected IBM's offer for writing a new OS for them?
hint: bill gates took advantage instead and look where he is now.
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July 23rd, 2012, 05:40 AM
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#10 | | Historian
Joined: May 2012 Posts: 1,714 |
"I do not consider him to be as bad as depicted. He is showing an ability that is amazing, and he seems to be gaining his victories without much bloodshed." - Gandhi on Adolf Hitler http://www.gandhism.net/hisownwords.php
Gandhi was actually a bit of an racist a**hole.
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