"It'll Never Work!"

[Mr.Sam]

http://www.null-hypothesis.co.uk/science/strange-but-true/item/invention_failure_never_work_disaster





Television won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.

- Darryl F. Zanuck, Head of 20th Century-Fox, 1946.

[bo$$]

"This `telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a practical form of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.

- Western Union internal memo, 1878"


loool



"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"


loool x 2


"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.

- Lord Kelvin (1824-1907)
British mathematician and physicist"
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[iJoe]

wow i love that site, thanks +rep

[Misawa]

Crazy that the creator of the internet said it would die in 1996.

[ebay]

Love it :)

[FlyingJesus]

I can't believe a physicist said that things heavier than air couldn't fly :S had he never seen a bird or flying insect

[Hiro]

Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.
- Marshal Ferdinand Foch,
French military strategist and World War I commander.

that one made me chuckle.

[Virgin Mary]

Shame scientists are still as ignorant as ever.

[Shawnstra]

When people are experts, they only think that is one way things are done, the way they did. Only those who do not have prior experience, try different methods, unorthodox ways to solve problems.

[FlyingJesus]

Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.
- Marshal Ferdinand Foch,
French military strategist and World War I commander.

that one made me chuckle.

That's the French military for you

[Bun]

Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.
- Marshal Ferdinand Foch,
French military strategist and World War I commander.

that one made me chuckle.
that one made me laugh :P.