Originally Posted by jerrys
"Who wants to hear actors talk?"
---H.M.Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927
"I'm just glad it'll be Clark 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'
"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out."
---Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962
"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible."
---Lord Kelvin, president of the Royal Society, 1895
"Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction."
---Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."
---Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents
"640K ought to be enough for anybody."
---Bill Gates, 1981
"Airplanes are interesting toys, but they have no military value."
---Marshall Ferdinand Foch, 1911
"Whatever happens, the U.S. Navy is not going to be caught napping."
---Frank Knox, U.S. Secretary of the Navy, December 4, 1941
"Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau."
---Economist Irving Fisher, October 16, 1929
"Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the
lowest crime rates in the country."
Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, DC
"I haven't committed a crime. What I did
was fail to comply with the law."
David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering
accusations that he failed to pay his taxes.
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