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Famous Last Words
- 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...
- We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out."
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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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find
oil?
You're crazy." --Drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried...
- Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau."
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Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University...
- Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value." -
Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole...
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