The expert has spoken...

Below are a series of quotes by famous people,people who were considered 'experts' in their fields, and their opinions on certain issues.It is interesting to note how a lot of possible ideas were initially dismissed by the 'experts' before some paradigm shifter came along.

Studies have shown this is primarily because of pride and a staunch belif that if something had been possible then THEY themselves would have thought of it, since they didnt,its not possible.Nearly all of them have been proven otherwise.

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

"640k ought to be enough for anybody."
-- Bill Gates, 1981

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
-- IBM chairman Thomas Watson, 1943

"A rocket will never be able to leave the earth's atmosphere."
--The New York Times, 1936

"But what ... is it good for?"
--Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip.

"Everything that can be invented has already been invented."
-- Charles H. Duell, director of the U.S. Patent Office, 1899

"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
- Kristin Wilson, Nintendo, Inc., 1989

"There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom."
--Nobel Prize-winning physicist Robert Milliken, 1923

"Television won't last because people will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night."
--Producer Darryl Zanuck, 20th Century Fox, 1946

"Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy!"
--Drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to drill for oil in 1859

"Well-informed people know it is impossible to transmit the voice over wires and that were it possible to do so, the thing would be of no practical value."
--Boston Post, 1865

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

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

"The atom bomb will never go off - and I speak as an expert in explosives."
--U.S. Admiral William Leahy in 1945

"If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor one."
--W.C. Heuper, National Cancer Institute, 1954

"You ain't going nowhere, son. You ought to go back to driving a truck."
--The Grand Ole Opry's Jim Denny to Elvis Presley, 1954

"You'd better learn secretarial skills or else get married."
--Modeling agency, rejecting Marilyn Monroe in 1944

"Radio has no future." "X-rays are clearly a hoax". "The aeroplane is scientifically impossible."
--Royal Society president Lord Kelvin, 1897-9