[MD] If you imagine YOUR ideas have little or no merit

[Robert Robinson]

If you imagine YOUR ideas have little or no merit,  
take a look at what the EXPERTS Say(from internet):


"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.  
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in
their home."  
- Ken Olson, president, chairman & founder of Digital
Equipment Co, 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 telephone will be used to inform people that a
telegram has been sent."  
- Alexander Graham Bell.  
"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.  

"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.  
"Can't dance. Can't act. Can sing a little." 
- Notes from Fred Astaire's screen test.  
"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 3M "Post-It" Pads  
"So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this
amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and
what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it
to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll
come to work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we
went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't
need you. You haven't got through college yet.'" 
- Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on attempts
to get Atari and HP interested in his and Steve
Wozniak's personal computer.  
"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.  
"You want to have consistent and uniform muscle
development across all of your muscles? It can't be
done. It's just a fact of life. You just have to
accept inconsistent muscle development as an
unalterable condition of weight training." 
- Response to Arthur Jones, who solved the
"unsolvable" problem by inventing Nautilus.  
"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.  
"The bomb will never go off. I speak as an expert in
explosives." 
- Admiral William Leahy, US Atomic Bomb Project.  

"This fellow Charles Lindbergh will never make it.
He's doomed." 
- Harry Guggenheim, millionaire aviation enthusiast.  
"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.  
"Man will never reach the moon regardless of all
future scientific advances." 
- Dr. Lee De Forest, inventor of the vacuum tube. 
"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  
"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.  
"If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the
production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one." 
- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as
quoted in the New York Times on   April 14, 1954.  
"For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial
effect."  
- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in
"Newsweek", Nov. 8th 1963. 
"640K ought to be enough for anybody." 
- Bill Gates, 1981. 
"The Transistor is a passing fad."  
- Dr. William J. Barclay, EE Department NCSU, 1969. 
"Apple... What a Dumb Name for a computer company." 
- Glen A. Williamson, deciding between a Sol-20
computer kit & an Apple II, 1979. 
"The SBIR respondent's [Williamson] proposal is
rejected because of his lack of prior experience
dealing with automotive lane trackers."  
- USDOT/SBIR evaluator's rejection of SBIR submission:
of the only two published papers on the subject, at
the time, both had the respondent's name on them. 
   
  Have Fun,
  Robbie 




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