The pelvic exam will be done later on the floor. The patient has two teen age children, but no other abnormalities. He is a busted flush.-Lord Beaverbrook in 1932, explaining why he would not give the man a job on his newspaper. Ten years later he was Prime Minister and his boss. In 1903 Wilbur and Orville flew.
Space travel is utter bilge-Dr.
Richard Wooley, Astronomer Royal, 1956. Edison's electric light bulb is good enough for our transatlantic friends, but unworthy of practical of scientific or practical men.-British Parliamentary society set up to investigate electric lighting,1878. There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home. Head of the Digital Equipment Company now part of Compaq,1977. They're in the deep freeze with packets of peas neatly stacked behind them.