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Old Quotes That Have Become Obsolete

It Aint Necessarily So

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This one became obsolete hours after it was spoken:

On January 13th of this year, Missouri Senator Josh Hawley said that it was incorrect to call January 6 an insurrection: “Not a single person from that day has been charged with the crime of insurrection,” Later the same day, eleven Oath Keepers were charged with seditious conspiracy.
 

Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
This one became obsolete hours after it was spoken:

On January 13th of this year, Missouri Senator Josh Hawley said that it was incorrect to call January 6 an insurrection: “Not a single person from that day has been charged with the crime of insurrection,” Later the same day, eleven Oath Keepers were charged with seditious conspiracy.
That is rather funny.
 

9-10ths_Penguin

1/10 Subway Stalinist
Premium Member
"Bet you dollars to donuts" is already obsolete depending on how fancy a donut (and donut purveyor) we're talking about.
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
"There is no danger that Titanic will sink. The boat is unsinkable
and nothing but inconvenience will be suffered by the passengers.”
– Phillip Franklin, VP of the White Star Line
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
“This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication.”
— William Orton, President of Western Union – 1876


Little did he know that someday, the telephone would
do more than take pictures, get text messages, have
a calculator. We can now even use it for phone calls.
 

It Aint Necessarily So

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I think there is a world market for maybe 5 computers. Thomas Watson - CEO of IBM

You might like some of these. Yours is number 21 on this list:

Adapted from Famous Predictions That Never Came True (knoji.com)

FOOLISH PREDICTIONS

[1] "Rail travel at high speed is not possible, because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia." - Dr Dionysius Lardner (1793-1859), professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy, University College London

[2] "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." - Napoleon Bonaparte, when told of Robert Fulton's steamboat, 1800s

[3] "The phonograph has no commercial value at all." - Thomas Edison, American inventor, 1880s

[4] "What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives traveling twice as fast as stagecoaches?" - The Quarterly Review, March, 1825

[5] "The abolishment of pain in surgery is a chimera. It is absurd to go on seeking it…knife and pain are two words in surgery that must forever be associated in the consciousness of the patient." - Dr. Alfred Velpeau, French surgeon, 1839.

[6] "No one will pay good money to get from Berlin to Potsdam in one hour when he can ride his horse there in one day for free." - King William I of Prussia, on hearing of the invention of trains, 1864.

[7] "Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction." - Pierre Pachet, British surgeon and Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872.

[8] "The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon." - John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon, appointed Surgeon Extraordinary to Queen Victoria, 1873.

[9] "Such startling announcements as these should be deprecated as being unworthy of science and mischievious to its true progress." - William Siemens, on Edison's light bulb, 1880

[10] "X-rays will prove to be a hoax." - Lord Kelvin, President of the Royal Society, 1883.

[11] "We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy." - Simon Newcomb, Canadian-born American astronomer, 1888.

[12] "Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." - Lord Kelvin, British mathematician and physicist, president of the British Royal Society, 1895

[13] "Radio has no future." - Lord Kelvin, Scottish mathematician and physicist, former president of the Royal Society, 1897

[14] "There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now; All that remains is more and more precise measurement." - Lord Kelvin, speaking to the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1900.

[15] "The horse is here to stay but the automobile is only a novelty-a fad." - The president of the Michigan Savings Bank advising Henry Ford's lawyer not to invest in the Ford Motor Co., 1903

[16] "Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value." - Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre, 1904

[17] "The idea that cavalry will be replaced by these iron coaches is absurd. It is little short of treasonous." - Comment of Aide-de-camp to Field Marshal Haig

[18] "The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine." - Ernest Rutherford, shortly after splitting the atom for the first time

[19] "There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom." - Robert Millikan, American physicist and Nobel Prize winner, 1923

[20] "While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility, a development of which we need waste little time dreaming." - Lee DeForest, American radio pioneer and inventor of the vacuum tube, 1926

[21] "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."...Thomas Watson, president of IBM.

[22] "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."... Ken Olsen, founder of DEC.
 

sun rise

The world is on fire
Premium Member
"A penny saved is a penny earned" has been replaced by "An almost totally valueless penny "saved" is a penny losing value to inflation"
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
In response to the question...
“Will this gun not make war more terrible?”
“No, it will make war impossible.”
– Hiram Maxim1893
 
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