“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 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 h*** 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 to not 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.
“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 3-M “Post-It” Notepads.
“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.
“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 whom Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist in his project to drill for oil in 1859.
“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.
“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.
“No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.” — Orville Wright.
“I want to fundamentally change the government in this county”
BHO
“Honey, you’re going to get lucky tonight.”
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25 of the most telling and colorful comments made about the “glitches” the online exchanges have faced…
1. “I hope they are working day and night to get this done. When they get it fixed, I hope they fire some people that were in charge of making sure that this thing was supposed to work.” — former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs on MSNBC’s “Now with Alex Wagner,” Oct. 14
2. “A thousand Social Security numbers being sent to the wrong people is not a glitch!” — CNBC contributor Carol Roth on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” Oct. 12
3. “How can we tax people for not buying a product from a website that doesn’t work?” — House Speaker John Boehner, Oct. 10
4. “Despite the widespread belief that the administration was not ready for the health law’s Oct. 1 launch, top officials and lead IT contractors looked us in the eye and assured us all systems were a go. Instead, here we are 10 days later, and delays and technical failures have reached epidemic proportions.” — Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) in a statement, Oct. 10
5. “We’re going to do a challenge. I’m going to try and download every movie ever made and you are going to try to sign up for Obamacare — and we’ll see which happens first.” — Jon Stewart to Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on “The Daily Show,” Oct. 7
6. “It’s a new rule: If something doesn’t work, you get rid of it! If the post office is late today, let’s get rid of the post office! If the plane is late an hour, get rid of airplanes! It’s ridiculous!” — MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, Oct. 12
7. “There’s so much wrong, you just don’t know what’s broken until you get a lot more of it fixed.” — Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini, Oct. 14
8. “They had three years to get this ready. If they weren’t fully ready, they should accept the advice Republicans are giving them: Delay it for a year, get it ready and make sure it works.” — CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, Oct. 9
9. “I heard that [the website] had over 8 million hits — people that have tried to sign up — and so far they have people in the single digits that have signed up.” — Rep. Buck McKeon (R-Calif.), Oct. 9
10. “The shutdown has completely gotten in the way of the message of Obamacare not working. If there were no government shutdown, Republicans could train all their fire on the failures of the exchanges in a ‘See, I told you so’ approach.” — Republican strategist Ron Bonjean, Oct. 1
11. “The fact that there is any disruption in the website is inexcusable. But I think the attention is being diverted from the slowness of the website to the fact that we’re in this financial crisis.” — Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.), Oct. 10.
12. “Basically, HHS has screwed this whole thing up.” — Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), Oct. 9
13. “Consider that just a couple of weeks ago, Apple rolled out a new mobile operating system, and within days, they found a glitch, so they fixed it. I don’t remember anybody suggesting Apple should stop selling iPhones or iPads or threatening to shut down the company if they didn’t.” — President Barack Obama, Oct. 1
14. “If Apple launched a major new product that functioned as badly as Obamacare’s online insurance marketplace, the tech world would be calling for Tim Cook’s head.” — Ezra Klein and Evan Soltas in The Washington Post Wonkblog, Oct. 4
15. “It’s bad enough that Sebelius and Co. produced a terrible taxpayer-funded product. It’s even worse that they didn’t heed the warnings or spot the red flags. They put on a smile, flipped the switch and sat by as it crashed…[T]he first person fired should be Secretary Sebelius.” — RNC Chairman Reince Priebus, Oct. 15
16. “The secretary does have the full confidence of the president. She, like everyone else in this effort, is focused on our No. 1 priority, which is making the implementation of the Affordable Care Act work well. People are working 24/7 to address the problems and isolate them and fix them, when it comes to the website and enrollment issues.” — Press secretary Jay Carney, Oct. 15
17. “If the problems persist another three or four weeks, those at the back of the line will not have coverage.” — Dan Schuyler, consultant who helped design a health insurance exchange in Utah, Oct. 11
18. “If we are already running into issues at the user account stage, we’re going to run into a lot more issues when we get to the more complex operations at the [subsidy] eligibility determination.” — Dan Schuyler, consultant who helped design a health insurance exchange in Utah, Oct. 11
19. “The volume obviously is a factor: For the first day or two, it worked. A week and a half later, it’s no longer an adequate explanation.” — Washington and Lee University School of Law professor Tim Jost, Oct. 12
20. “In retrospect, they should have said to the public before Oct. 1, ‘This is going to take a while; give us some time and wait.’” — John Rother, president of the National Coalition on Health Care, Oct. 12
21. “It is not unique that when you have a very large, new software program come out that people work to clean it up.” — Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, Oct. 6
22. “[It’s] pretty clear that they’re working on the glitches in Obamacare, and it’s pretty clear that we need a geek squad for the website, not a firing squad for the entire bill.” — Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Oct. 10
23. “In eight weeks, we will find out what the cause was and work it out with the help of HHS and the Small Business Administration, to make it easier to enroll.” — Rep. Rubén Hinojosa (D-Texas), Oct. 10
24. “This week, Sebelius continued wasting taxpayer dollars on advertising and promotional tours. This included failed rallies at NFL stadiums and appearances on comedy shows to promote enrollment while at the same time, Americans were unable to sign up for health care plans as promised. Even Jon Stewart didn’t think it was a laughing matter.” — Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), Oct. 11
25. “[It’s] like trying to repair a car while someone is driving it.” — George Edwards, computer scientist, to FoxNews.com, Oct. 10
Democracy is what we want said the free shit army; while communism is what they got.
Modern Democracy is Communism. Names change, policy implementation doesn’t. Stalin and Mao just started off with the purges whereas we’re going to save those til later.
Hey Thunderchicken – I have a premise for you to explore. What if complex life isn’t an upward process of refinement and development, but rather a downward spiral reflecting the universe’s preference towards entropy?
“Listen to this song. It will shoot to the top of the charts and stay there for a year.”
—-Admin, upon posting Green Day’s latest release
“I won the War on Drugs.” – SSS
“Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.” — Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.
This one is my favorite. What the fuck is a bird? HZK needs to change her name.
Evolution is a lie. It is the lie of all lies.All these isms and all these godless ideologies are based in the lie of evolution.All are just modern day forms of idolatry.IDOLATRY and IDEOLOGY go hand and hand.So does mass murder.
bb – You are the reason so many millions of people feel very strongly that abortion should remain legal. Feel free to practice post-natal abortion on yourself. Any time now…
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“What if complex life isn’t an upward process of refinement, but rather a downward spiral reflecting the universe preference toward entropy?”
I have no problem with that; after all it is what happens when man stops believing in God or a higher mind, and only relies on his own understanding. But that is not the end of it.
Notice that the word entropy is a noun. It is the name of a process dealing with the transformation of energy. This is a process that can and does reverse because energy; weather human or natural, is always in movement.
In the case of human entropy “remorse of conscience” can and does reverse it. Take the case in the Bible when Jonah proclaimed God’s message to the people of the City of Nineveh that their city, shall be overthrown because of their evil ways. They had a change of mind and repented, and so their city was not overthrown. For America it seems that there will be no remorse of conscience until after it’s fall. That seems to be the way of man; for as you suggested, man gives up his upward process of refinement and development,when he gives up his desire to know higher mind, descends back down into his animal mind that, puts him into the human version of entropy.
Here is a proposition for you to chew on: Above the entrance of the Temple of Delphi in ancient Greece were the words, “KNOW THYSELF”.
There are two centers of gravity in man; the organic animal body and the psyche. Each has its own nature. Have you identified both those natures in yourself?
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke, “Profiles of The Future”, 1961 (Clarke’s third law)
ecliptix543: One more question: What center does the ego of man reside in; the organic animal body or the psyche?
“The war on drugs is winnable”
“The war on terror will make us safer”
“the war on poverty will help the poor”
“We have a representative democracy”
“With Obamacare, you can keep your doctor, you can keep your health plan, and you’ll save, on average, $2500 a year”
“I’ll have the most transparent presidency in history”
“raising the debt ceiling won’t increase the debt”
“you didn’t build that, somebody else made that happen”
“It’s good when you spread your wealth around”
Olga: Do you know why this is so? It is because anything beyond the comprehension of the reasoning capacity or understanding of a man is magic. The ones who developed the technology obviously understand it; but the masses don’t, so it is magic. During the inquisition people that were advanced in science got burned at the stake. To the masses it was magic and came from the devil.
Thunderbird:
I threw that out there because I suspect most people don’t realize that our alphabet soup / DARPA folks have “technology” that is 30-40 years in advance from anything we are “allowed” to enjoy – including mind control.
Benays was just the beginning.
543, Abortion is murder and evolution is still a lie….Prove to me abortion is not murder ,prove to me evolution is real science. It has never been observed in lab. Now no more of this damn nonsense.You are going to die and then you will face judgement.MEATHEAD
Olga: The existing technology already known to the people is already too advanced for us to use. We are not psychologically matured enough to use it for purposes other than destruction, eliminating jobs, and controlling others.
There is so much to discover using the existing technology, but because so many have become human automatism zombies we are now being controlled by the computer and other advances. We cannot think for ourselves anymore. Our thoughts are all automatic and revolve around our desire to feel good. We now react to all outside stimulation rather than assimilate information coming at us and willfully use or discard that information for our own development. People have very little will left to resist the direction “others” are taking us in.
Mind control is the result of a failed self developing being to develop itself. Don’t blame the system.
I’ve seen a few people wake up and I’ve seen a few people choose to stay asleep – but the rest don’t even realize there is a choice to be made. Zombies, one and all.
“The system” can be defined in a myriad of different ways – government, family, church, culture, tribe – but the predator class has control of the media – as well as the “sufficiently advanced technology” and fear is the best control agent.
Acknowledging the existence of control mechanisms that can’t even be comprehended – because predators want to control – is IMO, a step in the right direction.
“……………with liberty and justice for all.” We’ve all said these famous last words at some point . It’s just that nobody knows what those words mean especially people in banking, government and politics. It’s arguable there has ever really been such a thing or can be. But very few even care and the odd ones who do are designated terrorists.
We are doomed for sure. The good part is that the Establishment, the Institutions, the FSA , the Pisswillie Drones, and the ignorant are Triple Dog Doomed.
“Who the h*** wants to hear actors talk?” — H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927
This guy was definitely on to something. These days, actors and actresses can STFU. If only he had said “Who the hell wants to hear actors talk ‘off screen’?”
In regards to evolution: Other than intelligent design or flat out creationism, there aren’t any good alternative theories that explain how organisms change over time. Fossils aren’t lies. The presence of the same genes in closely related species aren’t lies.
Meh, I was going to argue evolution, but there is absolutely no point in arguing with people that believe it is a lie or that it is a false science. You’re welcome to your beliefs and I support that fully.
What is the point of demonstrating evolution? Does it prove or disprove creationism? No. Where did the notion of intelligent design come from? The human mind? At least intelligent design seems the acknowledge greater mind; Like God.
All this is petty talk. I believe we were created by something more intelligent than us that I have no problem calling God. Think about it: an organic self regulating animal body with a self developing psyche. Hummmm. Very interesting. I think intelligent design falls far short of the miracle of our body, and evolution doesn’t even come close to addressing the brain and its unused capacity. I believe we are a creation. This makes the most sense to my limited intellect..
MEATHEAD 543 MEET MEATHEAD THUNDER BIRDY
Those are some great famous last words, however the one about germs is true. Germs don’t really exist, it’s all just a big conspiracy from “BIG SOAP.”
It’s true. Ask yourself this…
Have you ever seen a germ?
And before you say yes through a microscope, who do you think invented microscopes?
BIG SOAP that’s who.
Don’t believe the hype.
; )