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

[Mike Craghead]

Robert:

Quotes like this are the reason Al Gore invented the internet.

Mike Craghead
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Robert Robinson wrote:
> 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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