Prophezeiungen großer Experten

Danke vielmals Walter,

da kann ich noch einen auflegen :

In the 1830s, Dionysius Lardner, author of The Steam Engine Explained and
Illustrated, said, "Rail travel at high speeds is not possible because
passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia."

When told of Robert Fulton's steamboat, Napoleon said, "What, sir, would
you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire
under her deck? I pray you, excuse me, I have not the time to listen to
such nonsense."

On the eve of World War II, Admiral Clark Woodward said, "As far as sinking
a ship with a bomb is concerned, it can never be done."

Thomas Edison said, "Just as certain as death, George Westinghouse will
kill a customer within six months after he puts in an electric system of
any size," and "the phonograph has no commercial value at all."

"This telephone has too many shortcomings to be considered as a means of
communication," said the president of Western Union in 1876. "The device is
of inherently no value to us."

The president of Michigan Savings Banks advised Henry Ford's lawyer not to
invest in the Ford Motor Company because, he said, "The horse is here to
stay, the automobile is a novelty."

In 1921, radio pioneer David Sarnoff said, "The wireless music box has no
imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in
particular?"

In 1926, Lee DeForest, inventor of the vacuum tube, said, "While
theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and
financially I consider it an impossibility."

"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible," said Lord Kelvin,
president of the British Royal Society and one of
the nineteenth century's greatest experts on thermodynamics.

"A rocket will never be able to leave the earth's atmosphere," stated the
New York Times in 1936.

"Space travel is utter bilge," said a British astronomer in 1956.

"There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom," said Nobel
Prize-winning physicist Robert Milliken in 1923.

"Taking the best left-handed pitcher in baseball and converting him into a
right fielder is one of the dumbest things I ever heard," said Tris Speaker
in 1919. He was talking about Babe Ruth.

In 1929, Yale economist Irving Fisher said, "Stock prices have reached what
looks like a permanently high plateau." Two weeks later, the stock market
crashed.

MGM executive Irving Thalberg had this for Louis B. Mayer regarding Gone
With the Wind: "Forget it, Louie, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel."

The director of Blue Book Modeling Agency advised Marilyn Monroe in 1944,
"You better learn secretarial work or else get married."

"You ain't going nowhere, son. You ought to go back to driving a truck,"
said Jim Denny, manager of the Grand Ole Opry, in firing Elvis Presley
after a performance in 1954.

"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out anyway,"
said the president of Decca Records, rejecting the Beatles in 1962.

Darryl Zanuck observed, in 1946, "Television won't last because people will
soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night."

The chairman of IBM said, "I think there is a worldmarket for about five
computers," in 1943.

"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home,"
said the president of Digital Electronic Corporation in 1977.

"We will bury you," predicted Nikita Kruschev in 1958.

Visionary designer Buckminster Fuller said, in 1966, "By 2000, politics
will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties."

Social scientist David Riesman declared, in 1967, "If anything remains more
or less unchanged, it will be the role of women." And here's one for those
who worry that the world will end in the year 2000: Henry Adams said, in
1903, "My fingers coincide in fixing 1950 as the year when the world must
go smash. The world is coming to an end in 1950."

Happy trading
shageluk