It isn't only Dan Quayle and Homer Simpson who say the dumbest things !

[DannyBoyUK]

Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?"
-- H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927

 

[DannyBoyUK]

"I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper."
-- Gary Cooper, on his decision to not take the leading role in "Gone With The Wind."

 

[DannyBoyUK]

"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.

 

[DannyBoyUK]

"Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country." -- Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, DC

 

[DannyBoyUK]

"I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body."
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward

 

[DannyBoyUK]

"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out."
-- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.

 

[DannyBoyUK]

"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible."
-- Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.

 

[DannyBoyUK]

"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 in his project to drill for oil in 1859.

 

[DannyBoyUK]

"Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau."
-- Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929.

 

[DannyBoyUK]

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

 

[DannyBoyUK]

"Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction".
-- Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872

 

[phrodeau]

Lord Kelvin also said, "Radio has no future".

Bill Gates once maintained that nobody would ever need more than 640K of computer memory.

 

[joebarry]

Yes - when I got my ZX Spectrum in 1983 - the shopkeeper told me to get the 16K not the 48K version because no programme could ever use all the 48K !