Failed Quotes:
The horse is here to stay but the automobile is only a novelty- a fad. — President of the Michigan Savings Bank
The cinema is little more than a fad. It's canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage. — Charlie Chaplin, 1916
A rocket will never be able to leave the Earth's atmosphere. — New York Times, 1936
There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will. — Albert Einstein, 1932
The world potential market for copying machines is 5000 at most. — IBM, to the eventual founders of Xerox, saying the photocopier had no market large enough to justify production, 1959
How, 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
Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia. — Dr Dionysys Larder (1793-1859)
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys. — Sir William Preece, Chief Engineer, British Post Office, 1878
Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. — Lord Kelvin, British mathematician and physicist
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And people currently say we cannot travel faster than the speed of light! PSH
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