Man will never reach the moon regardless of all future scientific advances. Dr. Lee De Forest, inventor of the vacuum tube and father of television. Drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to drill for oil in 1859. 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. Everything that can be invented has been invented. Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899. I cannot imagine any condition which would cause a ship to founder. I cannot conceive of any vital disaster happening to this vessel.