Silly Quotes
see also...faemus last werds
1. 4 frigits will du the biz; no need for military foers
(Lord North=Brit prime minister, 1774, bout rebels in Amerika)
2. 640K memree is plentee for evreewon (Bill Gates, 1981)
3. aerplanes R toys av no military value
(Foch=boss av the stradegy sekshun av French War Dept)
4. Amerika dont no how tu make aerplanes (Herman Goering=boss av German aer foers, 1942)
5. Beetels: Dekka Rekords rejekt em: "we dont like theer sound"
6. but wot is a mikrochip good for? (chip deziner, 1968)
7. demokrasee will be ded bi 1950 (Jon Langdon, 1936)
8. dont need a fone. We hav plentee messenger boys (Hed av Brit Post Offis, 1876)
9. Einstein: 1896: his teecher sed "he'll never amount tu NE-thang"
in 1905 him made 6 erth-shattering therees, inkluding relativity
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10. Elvis, 1954: konsert manager fired Elvis & sed
"yu otta go bak tu drive truks"
11. evreethang that kan be invented has ben
(Charles Duel, boss av US patent offis, 1899)
12. fliing masheen is utterlee nonposabel (Simon Nukomb, 1902)
13. fone hav 2 many probs & no yuzeful value (Western Yuenyun, 1876)
14. for the tuerist hu wanna get awae from it all...Vietnam
Newsweek predikted best vakashun spots for the "late 60's"
15. Hawaii...a werld av happy in an oeshun av pees (Hawaii Tuerist Buro, Oct 1941)
[6 weeks b4 Japs bomb perl-harber]
16. heveeer than aer masheen will never fli (Lord Kelvin, 1895 & 1899)
him was then a faemus Brit sientist
in 1907 (4 yrs after Rite brothers) Lord Haldane sed "man will never fli"
he was the boss av British military then
17. hoersless kaeraej will never be as kommon as bikes (1899: Literary Digest)
18. hu wanna heer akters talk? H M Warner av Warner Studios, 1927)
19. I dont beleev stones fell from the ski (Tom Jeffersun, 1790)
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20. I dont like theer sound (Dekka Rekords terned down the Beetles in 1962)
21. I dont see NE reesum for the vyues in mi book tu shok relijus
sensabilitees (Charles Darwin, 1869)
22. I thank theer is a werld-wide market for 5 puters (Tom Watson=prez av IBM, 1943)
b. Theer mae be a werld market for 5 puters
23. if smoking plae a role in lung kanser, it is miner (W C Hueper, National Kanser Institute, 1954)
24. I'm glad its Klark Gabel tu fall on his faes
(Gary Kooper wen him terned down part as Ret Butler in muvee "gon with the wind")
25. in the fyucher, puter mae wae as littel as 1.5 tons (Popular Mechaniks, 1949)
26. inflate is ded (Internashunal munee fund, 1959)
27. it is alredy 2 late tu avoid mass starvahsun (Denis Haes, 1970)
28. it is pees for our time (30 Sep 1939: Nevil Chamberlaen=Brit prime minister)
29. it is unlikely NE-1 will find unnoed land av NE value
(kommitte tu King Ferdinand av Spaen, 1486)
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30. it will be gon bi June [it=Rok & Roll] (Variety mag, 1955)
31. Jap kar industree is not likelee tu karv out much av US kar market (Biz Week, 2 Aug 1968)
32. kapitalism will kill self (Karl Marx, about 1935)
33. kar has reeched its limit (Sientifik Amerikan mag, 1909)
34. lite bulb is not werth our tenshun (1878: Brit paliament kommittee)
35. Luis Pastuers germ theree is reedikulus (Pachet=professer at Tuluse, 1872)
36. man will never fli kauz thats rezerved for angels (father av the Rite brothers)
37. miniskirt: 1966: KoKo sed "miniskirt is a bad joke"
38. Navy: "U S Navy wont be kot napping", Frank Nox (Sekratary av the Navy), 4 Des 1941
39. no fliing masheen will ever fli from Nu York tu Paris (Orvill Rite)
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40. no woman will be prime minister in mi lifetime (Margaret Thatcher, 1974)
41. nowon will ever bild a bigger aerplane (Boeing engineer, about 1935)
Him talk bout the 247=Boeing passerger plane than hold 10
42. nowon will ever want a puter in the home (Ken Olson=Digital founder, 1977)
43. opra not over til fat brod sing (Washington Post, 13 Jun 1978)
44. professer Goddard dont understand action & reakshun (1921: NY times)
[em retrakted the story on 17 Jul 1969 as Apollo 11 neered the Moon)
45. Prosperity: 1966: Time mag sed "Bi 2000, masheens will make so much
evreewon in US will be independently rich"
46. puter is a fad that will fade awae (boss av Prentis-Hall, 1957)
47. Raegan dont hav the presidential look
(United Artis rejekt him from role in a muvee, 1964)
48. rail travel at hi speed is not possabel kaus folks die av "asphyxia" (suffokate)
Dr Dion Lardner, bout 1840 (England)
49. reed mi lips: NO NU TAXES (Jorj Bush, 1988)
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50. remote shopping will flop (Time, 1966)
51. rokket will never be abel tu leev erths atmospheer (1936: NY Times)
52. short-time satir pulp (Time mag sed this bout Mad mag, 1956)
53. sorry, yu dont no how tu yuze English (San Fran Examiner tu Rudyard Kipling, 1889)
54. spaes travel is bunk (Harold Jones=Brit boss astronomer, 1957=2 weeks b4 sputnik)
55. spaes travel is utter bilj (Richard Van Woolee=Brit boss astronomer, 1956)
56. the bomb will never go off. I speek as an xpert on xplosives (Admiral Leehy)
[him was 1 av the big-wigs on the mahattan projekt that made the a-bomb]
57. the deth rate from starv tu deth will be 200 milyun/yeer bi 1980 (Paul R Ehrlich, 1970)
58. the graduated inkum tax will abolish majer dif in welth bi 1982 (Irwin Edman, 1932, Kolumbia Univ)
59. the hoers is heer tu stae. The kar is a novelty
(president av Michigan Save Bank tu Henree Ford, 1903)
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61. the idea the erth is not the senter av the yunivers is fawls, utterly heretikal
(Katholik Cherch, 5 Mar 1616)
62. the portant fundamental laws av fiziks hav all ben diskuvered (Albert A Michelson, 1894)
b. At most, siens mae add a fyu desimal points
63. the possabilities av aerplanes hav ben exhausted (Tom Edisun, 1895)
64. the role av woman will not chaenj (David Riesman, 1967..."soshal Sientist")
65. theer is no chans for kommunikashun Satellites (FCC boss, 1961)
66. theer is nuthang nu tu be diskuvered in fiziks (Lord Kelvin, 1900)
67. theer is no hint we kan ever get energy outta the atom (A Einstein, 1932)
[but in 1939 him talked Roosevelt intu start werk on the a-bomb]
68. theer R 2 many books; it is evil (Martin Luther, 1530=him started the reformashun)
69. they kant hit an elefant at this distans (last werds av Gen Jon Sedgwich, 1864)
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70. Titanik..."its unsinkabel"...spokesman for Wite Star Line, 1912
71. tu far-fetched tu be konsidered (Sientifik Amerikan tu Goddard, 1940)
Goddard proposed a rokket-plaen
72. tu put a man on the moon is a wild dreem werthy av Jules Vern.
It will never be. (Lee DeForest, 1926 (him invent vakyuem tubes))
73. tu tri tu redues paen in surgery is absurd (Dr Alfred Velpo, 1839)
74. TV..."Amerikans wont hav time for it", Ny York Times, 1939
75. TV mae be teknikally feezabel, but nowon will finans it (Lee DeForest, about 1940)
76. we R almost at the limit av all we kan lern with astronomy (Simon Nukomb, 1888)
77. we R the first & doubtless the last tu visit this hopeless plaes
(Lt Jo Ives, 1861 at the Grand Kanyun)
78. we will bury yu (Nikita Kruschev, 1958)
79. wemen dont wanna vote (Kleevland=US pres, 1905)
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80. wireless hav no fyucher (1894, Lord Kelvin=Brit)
81. wireless muzik box [radio] hav no kommershal value (David Sarnof, 1925)
82. x-raes is a hoex (Lord Kelvin, 1899)
83. yu better get a sekratary job or wed (Book Modeling Ajensee tu Marilyn Monroe, 1944)
84. yu dont hav a kollej degree...Hewlett-pakkard tu Steev Jobs hu then founded Appel
85. yu will be home b4 the leefs fall (Kaiser Wilhelm tu German trueps, Aug 1914)
[WW 1 lasted til Nov 1918=4 yeers]
fawls quote In books, muvees, TV
"elementary mi der Watson"...Sherlok Homes books dont hav this NE-weer
"Plae it agin Sam" no such werds in the muvee "Casablanka"
"Beem me up Skotty" no such werds on Star Trek (TV or muvees)
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