&& How fake are the predictions ? There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home !!
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Man will never reach the moon regardless
of all future scientific advances."
— Dr. Lee DeForest, father of radio and grandfather of television, in 1957.
“Computers in the future may weigh no more
than 1.5 tons.”
— Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949
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“I think there is a world market for maybe
five computers.”
— Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
“I have travelled the length and breadth of
this country and talked with the best people,
and I can assure you that h1. data processing is
a fad that won’t last out 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, commenting on the microchip,1968.
“640K [of computer memory] ought to be
enough for anybody.”
— Bill Gates, 1981
This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings
to be seriously considered as a means of
communication. h1. The device is inherently of
no value to us,"
— Western Union internal memo, 1876
“The wireless music box has no imaginable
commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent
to nobody in particular?"
— David Sarnoff’s associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.
“The concept is interesting and well-formed
but, in order to earn better than a ‘C’ [grade],
the idea must be feasible.”
A Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith’s paper
proposing reliable overnight delivery service. Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.
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“I’m just glad it’ll be Clarke Gable who’s
falling on his face and not Gary Cooper,”
—Gary Cooper on his decision not to take the leading role in “Gone With The Wind.”
“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 to Debbi Fields’ idea of starting Mrs. Fields’ Cookies.
“We don’t like their sound, and guitar music
is on the way out,”
— 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 do this,”
- – Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M “Post-It” Notepads.
“Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to
try and find oil? You’re crazy,”
— Drillers whom Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist for his project to drill for oil in 1859.
“Stocks have reached what looks like a
permanently high plateau.”
— Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929.
“Airplanes are interesting toys
but of no military value,”
— Marshall Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre, France .
“Man will not fly for 50 years.
"
— Wilbur Wright to his brother Orville in 1901
“No flying machine will ever fly from
New York to Paris.”
Orville Wright, in 1908
“Everything that can be invented
has been invented,”
— Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, US Office of Patents, 1899.
The super computer is technologically
impossible
. It would take all of the water
that flows over Niagara Falls to cool the
heat generated by the number of
vacuum tubes required."
— Professor of Electrical Engineering, New York University
“I don’t know what use any one could find
h1for a machine that would make copies of documents.
It certainly couldn’t be afeasible business by itself."
— Thomas Watson, head of IBM, refusing to back the idea,
forcing the inventor to found Xerox.
“Louis Pasteur’s theory of germs
is ridiculous fiction.”
— Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872
“The abdomen, the chest, and the brain
will forever be shut from the intrusion
of the wise and humane surgeon,”
— Sir John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon, appointed Surgeon-Extraordinary to Queen Victoria, 1873
“There is
no hope for the fanciful idea of
reaching the moon,
because of insurmountable
barriers to escaping the earth’s gravity."
University of Chicago astronomer F. R. Moulton in 1932
And last but not least …
“There is no reason anyone would want a
computer in their home.”
— Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
…. it means someday we will visit gleise 581g
yogeshgemini wrote:
:D…. it means someday we will visit gleise 581g
may be !
@B@R_0_0_D wrote:@yogeshgemini wrote:
:D…. it means someday we will visit gleise 581g
may be !
fastest man made object is voyager 1, its moving at speed of 11 miles per second, that is 39000 miles an hour, at this speed also it will take 3,50,000 years to reach this planet
may be somebody from other planet come with something not made by man, and kidnap us and transfer to their planet.!
Human Will Never Sucess To Travel In Time
Wolf
wolf wrote:
Human Will Never Sucess To Travel In Time
Wolf
they can someday
wow good collection…
we may/maynt be able to travel in past…bt our eyes hav alredy become capable of doing soo..
V kno that Light year is distance travelled by light in a year….also suppose thru radiotelescope one visualises a light ..it must hav taken many light years to reach us… So the actual phenomenon we r watching wit help of developed telescopes hav alredy occured & hence v can c past…
Nw scientists r trying to find out galaxies wit this knowledge which r of similar as earth or may be older than earth…once we find this v can follow up that body ( of our or different galaxy) to make out how earth actually evolved….
& alredy they hav sent powerfull radiowave/microwave telescopes to outer space….
wolf wrote:
Human Will Never Sucess To Travel In Time
Wolf
Hope to see ur comment in the first post one day 
“Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?” — H. M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.
“It will be years — not in my time — before a woman will become Prime Minister.” — Margaret Thatcher, 1974.
yogeshgemini wrote:
“Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?” — H. M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.
“It will be years — not in my time — before a woman will become Prime Minister.” — Margaret Thatcher, 1974.
really ? kya baat hai..
chip wrote:wolf wrote:
Human Will Never Sucess To Travel In Time
Wolf
Hope to see ur comment in the first post one day
only grandchildren and great grandchildren are so lucky >!@!
arrey sabse bda toh bhul gye…
Mayan—- WORLD will end on 21 Dec 2012
“The LHC is absolutely safe. If the collisions in the LHC produced a micro black hole – and this is unlikely – it would just evaporate away again, producing a correctoristic pattern of particles,”
- Stephen Hawking
wolf wrote:
Human Will Never Sucess To Travel In Time
Wolf
where you want to go !:cool:
Hats off to you Barood bhai.
@aag wrote:
“The LHC is absolutely safe. If the collisions in the LHC produced a micro black hole – and this is unlikely – it would just evaporate away again, producing a correctoristic pattern of particles,”
- Stephen Hawking
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whats wrong wit this? I think it still true…
BUTTERFLYBOY wrote:
Hats off to you Barood bhai.
Thanks , Tab se hi titli ne hat use karna band kar diya
(Barood ki hawa ka jhonka ^^^ Hats gone )
@B@R_0_0_D wrote:@BUTTERFLYBOY wrote:
Hats off to you Barood bhai.
Thanks , Tab se hi titli ne hat use karna band kar diya
(Barood ki hawa ka jhonka ^^^ Hats gone )
Haha 
Nice Thread
Thanks for sharing 
“The bomb will never go off. I speak as
an expert in explosives.”
- – Admiral William Leahy, about the US atomic bomb project
“There is no likelihood man can ever tap
the power of the atom.”
— Robert Millikan, Nobel laureate in physics,1923