Quotations That Missed The Mark -- Or, Wish I Never Said That ...

[Doc Tinker]

"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 15 tons. "

~Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949~





"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. "

~Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM,1943~





"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home,"

~Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp. , 1977~





"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. 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~





"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. "

~Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962~





"Everything that can be invented has been invented. "

~Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U. S. Office of Patents, 1899~





"640K ought to be enough for anybody. "

~Bill Gates, 1981~

 

[Wirenut]

I have a few of my own, hehe.



•"This truck has all the power I'll ever need"-Me when I got my first cummins powered Ram.

 

[QRTRHRS]

DC with their advertising dept.

http://slate. msn.com/?id=2060157

 

[Power Wagon]

I SAW that ad... . And so did the wife... We both busted up laughing at that one...



I thought it was pretty clever, actually. Guess I'm not sufficiently prudish enough to find it offensive.

 

[Doc Tinker]

That commercial bring back memories, Power Wagon?



By the way, how did you get the name Power Wagon? LOL



Doc

 

[illflem]

Power Wagon, no back seat, but plenty of bedroom... Yuck!

 

[redneckdr]

bad quotes

can't remember the exact quote, but a college prof told the man who started Fed Ex that overnight package delivery was a novel idea, but totally impractical, and would never work. i think he got a C on the paper... ... ...

 

[Batman]

I saw both versions of the Chrysler ad and think the second one is a joke. I was on the floor the first time I saw the original!!!



LOL at Illflem

 

[The patriot]

"Them is friendly indians over that thar hill".

General Custer... little bighorn

 

[admin2]

Gates....

Just an FYI, the quote commonly attributed to Bill Gates was never said by him (MS-DOS does NOT have a 640k limit. The IBM-PC, however, did and it was initially limited to 384K due to addressing limitations. MS-DOS on other machines such as the DEC Rainbow and Kaypro had over 900K of RAM).



Ken Olsen's PC quote was around 1982, not 1977. I owned a DEC Rainbow then and my father worked for DEC at the time Mr. Olsen made the remark. He made the remark AFTER the Rainbow as introduced which was in 1982.



People hate people like me when we play trivia... .

 

[Power Wagon]

Originally posted by illflem

Power Wagon, no back seat, but plenty of bedroom... Yuck!

You forget... My Power Wagon is a Crew Cab... Full back seat...

 

[klenger]

When the state of Colorado was considering putting in the E470 freeway around the south and west side of Denver, governor Richard Lamm said "it will be a cold day in hell before I approve this thing". On the day he performed the ribbon cutting on the freeway, we were having a blizard. His comment was "I'm glad I didn't say 'over my dead body'"



How about "This 21' travel trailer is as big of a camper as we'll ever need. "

 

[illflem]

Originally posted by Power Wagon





You forget... My Power Wagon is a Crew Cab... Full back seat...

So you must have the two bedroom model.

 

[Andy Perreault]

"It goes a long way on empty. "

Quoted by my dad behind the wheel of our '66 F250 in the middle of nowhere east of Green River, Utah, when I was probably 10 years old. He ended up hitchhiking with a gas can...

Andy

 

[Andy Perreault]

Re: bad quotes

Originally posted by redneckdr

can't remember the exact quote, but a college prof told the man who started Fed Ex that overnight package delivery was a novel idea, but totally impractical, and would never work. i think he got a C on the paper... ... ...

That story is true. It's also true that in the early days of the company, he (Fred Smith) flew to Chicago to meet with some investors because he desperately needed money. They turned him down. He had nowhere to go, so on a whim he took a flight to Las Vegas and ended up at the gambling tables. He cleaned out the place! He returned to Memphis and had enough money to pay his employees.

Andy

 

[NOMOFO]

GAWD! Your sister is HOT! I married someone else much later.