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quote[0]="Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.  -- Max Frisch"
quote[1]="For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.  -- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek, Nov.18th 1963."
quote[2]="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."
quote[3]="The bomb will never go off. I speak as an expert in explosives.  -- Admiral William Leahy, US Atomic Bomb Project."
quote[4]="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"
quote[5]="640K ought to be enough for anybody.  -- Bill Gates, 1981"
quote[6]="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."
quote[7]="Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction.  -- Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872"
quote[8]="Everything that can be invented has been invented.  -- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899."
quote[9]="Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.  -- Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre."
quote[10]="Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.  -- Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929."
quote[11]="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."
quote[12]="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."
quote[13]="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 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 H-P interested in his and Steve Wozniak's personal computer."
quote[14]="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."
quote[15]="Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.  -- Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895."
quote[16]="We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.  -- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962."
quote[17]="...we still feel that color is hard on the eyes for so long a picture.  -- Frank S. Nugent of The New York Times Film Review in its original 1939 review of Gone With the Wind "
quote[18]="Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?  -- H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927."
quote[19]="Dear Mr. President: The canal system of this country is being threatened by a new form of transportation known as 'railroads.' ... As you may well know, Mr. President, 'railroad' carriages are pulled at the enormous speed of 15 miles per hour by 'engines' which, in addition to endangering life and limb of passengers, roar and snort their way through the countryside, setting fire to crops, scaring the livestock and frightening women and children. The Almighty certainly never intended that people should travel at such breakneck speed.   --Martin Van Buren, Governor of New York"
quote[20]="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."
quote[21]="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."
quote[22]="There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.  -- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977"
quote[23]="But what ... is it good for?  -- Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip."
quote[24]="I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.  -- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943"
quote[25]="Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.  -- Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949"
quote[26]="In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time.  -- Edward P. Tryon"
quote[27]="I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.  -- Edward Chilton"
quote[28]="We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.  -- Ray Bradbury"
quote[29]="There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.  -- Fred Hoyle"
quote[30]="Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot- proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.   -- Rich Cook"
quote[31]="The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.  -- William J. Broad"
quote[32]="In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.  -- Douglas Adams"
quote[33]="Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.  -- Bill Watterson, cartoonist"
quote[34]="Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen and that is the basic building block of the universe.  --Frank Zappa"
quote[35]="Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.   -- Albert Einstein"
quote[36]="There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.  -- Douglas Adams"
quote[37]="Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....   -- Carl Zwanzig"
quote[38]="Never express yourself more clearly than you think.   -- Neils Bohr "
quote[39]="As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.   -- Albert Einstein"
quote[40]="The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.  -- Warren Bennis"
quote[41]="We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.   -- Carl Sagan"
quote[42]="Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done. -- Andy Rooney "
quote[43]="If the automobile had followed the same development as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year killing everyone inside. - Robert Cringely in InfoWorld "
quote[44]="The function of RAM is to give us guys a way of deciding whose computer has the biggest, studliest, most tumescent MEMORY. This is important, because with today's complex software, the more memory a computer has, the faster it can produce error messages. So the bottom line is, if you're a guy, you cannot have enough RAM. --Dave Barry in Cyberspace, 1996 "
quote[45]="The Internet [is] a giant international network of intelligent, informed computer enthusiasts, by which I mean, people without lives. We don't care. We have each other....While you are destroying your mind watching the worthless, brain-rotting drivel on TV, we on the Internet are exchanging, freely and openly, the most uninhibited, intimate and--yes--shocking details about our CONFIG.SYS settings. -- Dave Barry, 1994 in Miami Herald "
quote[46]="To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.  --Paul Ehrlich. "
quote[47]="UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.  --Dennis Ritchie."
quote[48]="If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.  --George Gobol"


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