The bomb will never go off. I speak as an expert in explosives. This fellow Charles Lindbergh will never make it. Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929.
Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.
Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre. Man will never reach the moon regardless of all future scientific advances. Everything that can be invented has been invented. I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.