| "A crisis is a terrible thing to waste" |
| Paul Romer - economist |
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| "Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible" |
| Lord Kelvin - President Royal Society, 1895 |
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| "Imagination is more important than knowledge" |
| Albert Einstein |
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| "There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home" |
| Ken Olsen - President, Chairman and Founder of DEC, 1977 |
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| "People tend to overestimate what can be done in one year and underestimate what can be done in five or ten years" |
| first quoted by J.C.R. Licklider - MIT computer scientist |
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| "The telephone has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication" |
| Western Union internal memo, 1876 |
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| "How did you go bankrupt? Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly" |
| Ernest Hemingway (The Sun Also Rises) |
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| "Television won't last. It's a flash in the pan" |
| Mary Somerville - pioneer of radio educational broadcasts, 1948 |
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| "In the long run, we are all dead" |
| John Maynard Keynes - economist |
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| "A rocket will never be able to leave the Earth's atmosphere" |
| New York Times, 1936 |
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| "It's easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk" |
| Bertolt Brecht |
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| "Cogito, ergo sum" |
| Rene' Descartes - Principles of Philosophy |
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| "Thought and ideas, not formulae, are the beginning of every physical theory" |
| Albert Einstein - The Evolution of Physics |
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| "By 2005 or so it will become clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's" |
| Paul Krugman - Nobel Prize in Economics, 1998 |
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| "I’ve taken a lot of Prozac, Paxil, Wellbutrin, Effexor, Ritalin, Focalin, ... I’ve also studied deeply in the philosophies and religions, but cheerfulness kept breaking through" |
| Leonard Cohen |