builder Posted August 29, 2006 Posted August 29, 2006 [W]hen the Paris Exhibition closes electric light will close with it and no more be heard of. - Erasmus Wilson (1878) Professor at Oxford University Well informed people know it is impossible to transmit the voice over wires and that were it possible to do so, the thing would be of no practical value. - Editorial in the Boston Post (1865) That the automobile has practically reached the limit of its development is suggested by the fact that during the past year no improvements of a radical nature have been introduced. - Scientific American, Jan. 2, 1909 Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. - Lord Kelvin, ca. 1895, British mathematician and physicist Radio has no future - Lord Kelvin, ca. 1897. While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially I consider it an impossibility, a development of which we need waste little time dreaming. - Lee DeForest, 1926 (American radio pioneer) There is not the slightest indication that [nuclear energy] will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will. - Albert Einstein, 1932. Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 19,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1.5 tons. - Popular Mechanics, March 1949. (Try the laptop version!) There is no need for any individual to have a computer in their home. - Ken Olson, 1977, President, Digital Equipment Corp. 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 lastout 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. Quote Persevere, it pisses people off.
builder Posted September 23, 2006 Author Posted September 23, 2006 GW Bush. "The war in Iraq is won" Quote Persevere, it pisses people off.
Lethalfind Posted September 23, 2006 Posted September 23, 2006 GW Bush. "The war in Iraq is won" I gotta agree with you there, never was there a bigger, more heinous lie told to the American people...AND the world. If its won then why do more people die day after day...??? Maybe the lie about the WMD was close... We're fitting terrorism by fighting in Iraq...that was pretty SAD!!! Quote I am a pathetic piece of shit leeching single mom.
RoyalOrleans Posted September 23, 2006 Posted September 23, 2006 "Don't worry! I pulled out." -RO Quote To be the Man, you've got to beat the Man. - Ric Flair Everybody knows I'm known for dropping science.
Hamza123 Posted September 24, 2006 Posted September 24, 2006 This outta' piss a few off. I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace. Muhammad Ali Quote Taking it up the poopchute from Allah since 1990.
Hamza123 Posted September 24, 2006 Posted September 24, 2006 Not much has changed. You can't have this kind of war. There just aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets. Dwight D. Eisenhower Quote Taking it up the poopchute from Allah since 1990.
hugo Posted September 24, 2006 Posted September 24, 2006 Us Muslims sure be peaceful people. Why are they pointing there weapons this...ack,arche, ack, qack, pffft.--Anwar Sadat Quote The power to do good is also the power to do harm. - Milton Friedman "I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents." - James Madison
RoyalOrleans Posted September 24, 2006 Posted September 24, 2006 My, my how things change. It isn Quote To be the Man, you've got to beat the Man. - Ric Flair Everybody knows I'm known for dropping science.
Lethalfind Posted September 24, 2006 Posted September 24, 2006 Kitten Gloves?? Pussy on your mind RO?? Quote I am a pathetic piece of shit leeching single mom.
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