| Miscellaneous
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Response to Debbi Fields' idea of starting Mrs. Fields' Cookies. |
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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. |
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| Lord
Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895. |
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| Heavier-than-air
flying machines are impossible. |
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| Marechal
Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre. |
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| Airplanes
are interesting toys but of no military value. |
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| 1921
New York Times editorial about Robert Goddard's revolutionary rocket work. |
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| Professor
Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need
to have something better than a vacuum against which to react. He seems
to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools. |
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| Response
to Arthur Jones, who solved the "unsolvable" problem by inventing Nautilus. |
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| You
want to have consistent and uniform muscle development across all of your
muscles? It can't be done. It's just a fact of life. You just have to accept
inconsistent muscle development as an unalterable condition of weight training. |
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| Drillers
who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to drill for oil in 1859. |
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for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy. |
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| Irving
Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929. |
| Stocks
have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. |
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| Pierre
Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872 |
| Louis
Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction. |
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| Sir
John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon, appointed Surgeon- Extraordinary to
Queen Victoria 1873. |
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abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion
of the wise and humane surgeon. |
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| Charles
H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899. |
| Everything
that can be invented has been invented. |
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