People Talk - 1

اين‌ها را از يك وبلاگ فرنگي همتا نقل مي‌كنم. خانم وبلاگ‌نويس، حرف‌هايي را كه آد‌م‌هاي مهم زمان خودشان درباره اختراع‌ها و نوآوري‌ها به زبان آورده‌اند، گرد آورده است. بامزه‌اند

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

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

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"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home." (Ken Olsen, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977)

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"The 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)

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"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value." (Marshal Ferdinand Foch, French commander of Allied forces during the closing months of World War I, 1918)

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"Everything that can be invented has been invented." (Charles H. Duell, commissioner, US Office of Patents, 1899)