Preserved Topic: Quotes, funny , famous, or stupid

Ok post your quotes, Funny, Famous, Stupid..... I am especially looking for famous quotes that were made a while ago, that were proved to be stupid and wrong....

Example = "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. "
- Thomas Watson (1874-1956), Chairman of IBM, Said in 1943

Example = "Everything that can be invented has been invented. "
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, Said in 1899




[This message has been edited by MR. CACTUS (edited 07-22-2001).]

threep coughs and says:
"um, before you do this, get a few hour's worth of reading by pressing that search button, and searching for quotes.... and i believe petskull may even have a site dedicated to this!
mmmm... quotes.... gotta love 'em! "

*sniff*

can't believe ya'll still remember me....

actually, ain't had no time to make it into a presentable page, but here's what I've got so far..
http://geo.petskull.net/quotes.txt



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I love quotes about science and technology that were later proven patently false. Here's a few from my web site:

"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.

"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." -- Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.

"Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react. He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools." -- 1921 New York Times editorial about Robert Goddard's revolutionary rocket work.

"Everything that can be invented has been invented." -- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.

"Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction." -- Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872.

"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.

"Man will never reach the moon regardless of all future scientific advances." -- Dr. Lee De Forest, inventor of the vacuum tube and father of television.

"The present generation will not [fly], and no practical engineer would devote himself to the problem now." -- Worby Beaumont, 1900.

"Men might as well project a voyage to the Moon as attempt to employ steam navigation against the stormy North Atlantic Ocean." -- Dr. Dionysus Lardner (1793-1859), Professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy at University College, London.

"What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives traveling twice as fast as stagecoaches?" -- The Quarterly Review, England (March 1825).

Those are good ones, Wangenstein.

Mine aren't quite what you asked for so FWIW, http://bugimus.com/views/cqqt/cqqt.phtml

Quotes,Funny,famous, or stupid? eh?

"Shit happens"

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I just noticed that Mr. Cactus is unregistered. Doc! We've got a stray wandering the halls.

"Have a nice day."

he isn't unregistered, that's jsut a error, although he has talked about trying to get doc to change his name so maybe he isn't registered now?, cause doc changed his name?
Cactus had like 300 posts or more, couple of days ago...hmmm
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hmmmmmmm...................how peculiar.

On an email request from Mr. Cactus, that username was changed to "Synthetic", although no post was ever received from this name since. Have I erred? No word has been received.

Your pal, -doc-