Have you ever 'had enough' with seriousness? Yeah, me too! I have just finished doing this BIG webpage thingie for a class I am taking, and thought I would "relax" (hehehehe) and find some "quality stuff; from the Internet". So here is some of the stuffI found.........
"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."
Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
"But what ... is it good for?"
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
"640K ought to be enough for anybody."
"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a
means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us."
"The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better
than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible."
"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?"
"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out."
"The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the
intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon". Really Stupid Crooks
A man in Johannesberg, South Africa, shot his 49-year-old friend in the
face, seriously wounding him, while the two practiced shooting beer cans
off each other's head.
A company trying to continue its five-year perfect safety record showed its
workers a film aimed at encouraging the use of safety goggles on the job.
According to Industrial Machinery News, the film's depiction of gory
industrial accidents was so graphic that twenty-five workers suffered minor
injuries in their rush to leave the screening room. Thirteen others
fainted, and one man required seven stitches after he cut his head falling
off a chair while watching the film.
The Chico, California, City Council enacted a ban on nuclear weapons,
setting a $500 fine for anyone detonating one within city limits.
A bus carrying five passengers was hit by a car in St. Louis, but by the
time police arrived on the scene, fourteen pedestrians had boarded the bus
and had begun to complain of whiplash injuries and back pain.
Swedish business consultant Ulf af Trolle labored 13 years on a book about
Swedish economic solutions. He took the 250-page manuscript to be copied,
only to have it reduced to 50,000 strips of paper in seconds when a worker
confused the copier with the shredder.
A convict broke out of jail in Washington D.C., then a few days later
accompanied his girlfriend to her trial for robbery. At lunch, he went out
for a sandwich. She needed to see him, and thus had him paged. Police
officers recognized his name and arrested him as he returned to the
courthouse in a car he had stolen over the lunch hour.
Police in Radnor, Pennsylvania, interrogated a suspect by placing a metal
colander on his head and connecting it with wires to a photocopy machine.
The message "He's lying" was placed in the copier, and police pressed the
copy button each time they thought the suspect wasn't telling the truth.
Believing the "lie detector" was working, the suspect confessed.
When two service station attendants in Ionia, Michigan, refused to hand
over the cash to an intoxicated robber, the man threatened to call the
police. They still refused, so the robber called the police and was
arrested.
A Los Angeles man who later said he was "tired of walking," stole a
steamroller and led police on a 5 mph chase until an officer stepped aboard
and brought the vehicle to a stop.
Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968,
commenting on the microchip.
Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
Bill Gates, 1981 apocryphal
Western Union internal memo, 1876.
A Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper
proposing reliable overnight delivery service. (Smith went on to found
Federal Express Corp.)
H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.
Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.
Sir John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon, appointed Surgeon- Extraordinary
to Queen Victoria 1873.
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These people should not be allowed to venture out into society...
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Would you believe that only people were smart enuff to find this page?