Datura
September 9, 2006, 7:32pm
1
I always like the certainty that people use when thinking that time stands still. Here are a few choice ones:
“Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?” H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.
“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.
“Everything that can be invented has been invented.” Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899, suggesting that the Patent Office be closed.
Let’s hear some more - Datura
One of my favourite ones is in my signature. There is ood bunch of awesome quotes on WikiQuote.
Datura
September 9, 2006, 7:46pm
3
“640K ought to be enough for anybody.” Bill Gates, 1981
“The supreme irony of life is hardly anyone ever gets out of it alive.”
Datura
September 10, 2006, 6:13pm
5
“But what … is it good for?” Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip.
“Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.”
Datura
September 11, 2006, 4:20pm
7
Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949
:footmouth: :-/ :goof:
r937
September 11, 2006, 4:30pm
8
“i wonder what this button does” – chernobyl janitor
“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.”
Datura
September 11, 2006, 4:59pm
10
“There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.” Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
stridox
September 11, 2006, 7:39pm
11
“I like pleasure spiked with pain, and music is my aeroplane.” - rhcp
“The difference between politics and baseball is that in baseball, when you get caught stealing, you’re out.”
~ Ron Dentinger
Datura
September 12, 2006, 9:34pm
13
“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself…Franklin D Roosevelt.
Datura
September 16, 2006, 12:04am
15
“Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.” Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em---- : Shakespeare
They couldn’t hit an elephant at this dist…
“If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.”
“If slavery is not wrong , nothing is wrong.”
Lincoln,
Letter to A.G. Hodges–1864
Here’s one of my favorites by US Senator John Kerry:
“If you don’t believe … Saddam Hussein is a threat with nuclear weapons, then you shouldn’t vote for me.”
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2003-02-11-dems-war-uast_x.htm
