Sunday, May 14, 2006

Creativity quotes

  • "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." --Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
  • "Problems cannot be solved by thinking within the framework in which the problems were created." — "Albert Einstein"
  • "But what ... is it good for?" --Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip.
  • "When a finger points to the moon the imbecile looks at the finger" -- Chinese proverb.
  • "Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." --Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949
  • "If you can dream it, you can do it." -- Walt Disney.
  • "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 Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.
  •  "Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream." -- Malcolm Muggeridge.
  • "Aeroplanes are interesting toys but of no military value." --Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre.
  •  "Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes.
  • "640K ought to be enough for anybody." -- Bill Gates, 1981

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