Non endurance related: But then again????

[Cheryl Newbanks <horsetrails@inficad.com>]

Hey all, in light of the recent posts on best type of horse, next endurance
purchase I thought this little Joke/food for thought may engage our
brains!! For some reason I thought it could be endurance related in a round
about way!!!!  <VBG>!
>From: "Newbanks, John P(Z07916)" <Z07916@apsc.com>
>To: "'Cheryl Newbanks'" <horsetrails@inficad.com>
>Subject: FW: Duh?
>Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 16:24:11 -0700
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>> SEVERAL DOZEN OF THE STUPIDEST THINGS EVER SAID
>>
>>"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." --Popular
>>Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science,
>>1949 
>>
>>"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." --Thomas
>>Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 
>>
>>"I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with
>>the best people, and I can assure you that data processing
>>is a fad that won't last out the year." --The editor in charge of
>>business books for Prentice Hall, 1957 
>>
>>"But what ... is it good for?" --Engineer at the Advanced Computing
>>Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the
>>microchip. 
>>
>>"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." --Ken
>>Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital
>>Equipment Corp., 1977 
>>
>>"This '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. 
>>
>>"The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay
>>for a message sent to nobody in particular?"
>>--David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in
>>the radio in the 1920s. 
>>
>>"The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better
>>than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible." --A Yale University
>>management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable
>>overnight delivery service. (Smith went on to found
>>Federal Express Corp.) 
>>
>>"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" --H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers,
>>1927. 
>>
>>"I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not
>>Gary Cooper." --Gary Cooper on his decision not to take the
>>leading role in "Gone With The Wind." 
>>
>>"A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say
>>America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy
>>cookies like you make." --Response to Debbi Fields' idea of starting Mrs.
>>Fields' Cookies. 
>>
>>"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." --Decca
>>Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962. 
>>
>>"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." --Lord Kelvin,
>>president, Royal Society, 1895. 
>>
>>"If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The
>>literature was full of examples that said you can't do this."
>>--Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M
>>"Post-It" Notepads. 
>>
>>"So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even
>>built with some of your parts, and what do you think
>>about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our
>>salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So
>>then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you.
>>You haven't got through college yet.'" --Apple
>>Computer Inc. founder, Steve Jobs, on attempts to get Atari and H-P
>>interested in his and Steve Wozniak's personal computer. 
>>
>>"Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction
>>and the need to have something better than a
>>vacuum against which to react. He seems to lack the basic knowledge
>>ladled out daily in high schools." --1921 New York Times
>>editorial about Robert Goddard's revolutionary rocket work. 
>>
>>"You want to have consistent and uniform muscle development across all of
>>your muscles? It can't be done. It's just a fact of life.
>>You just have to accept inconsistent muscle development as an unalterable
>>condition of weight training." --Response to Arthur
>>Jones, who solved the "unsolvable" problem by inventing Nautilus. 
>>
>>"Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil?
>>You're crazy." --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. 
>>
>>"Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction". --Pierre Pachet,
>>Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872. 
>>
>>"The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the
>>intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon". --Sir John Eric
>>Ericksen, British surgeon, appointed Surgeon- Extraordinary to Queen
>>Victoria 1873. 
>>
>>"640K ought to be enough for anybody." -- Bill Gates, 1981 
>>
>>
>>In certain sections of Pennsylvania many years ago, the Farmer's
>>Anti-Automobile society set up some "rules of the road." In
>>effect, they said:
>>
>>   1."Automobiles travelling on country roads at night must send up a
>>rocket every mile, then wait ten minutes for the road to
>>     clear." 
>>   2."If a driver sees a team of horses, he is to pull to one side of the
>>road and cover his machine with a blanket or dust cover
>>     that has been painted to blend into the scenery." 
>>   3."In the event that a horse refuses to pass a car on the road, the
>>owner must take his car apart and conceal the parts in
>>     the bushes." 
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