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August 28,
2000
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General Colin Powel Leadership
Primer:
Former Joint Chiefs of Staff General Colin Powell presents
his views about what it takes to be a great leader in this 18 lesson PowerPoint
presentation. Download (in zip format) this concise, but superb resource by
clicking here.
FactMonster:
Learn
something new everyday! FactMonster can give you information on just about
anything...from a list of the most mispelled words, to quizzes on the first
three Harry Potter books. Daily features include famous birthdays and today in
history! There's so much information for everyone...probably the most
informative site on the web!
NEXT TIME SOMEONE TELLS
YOU IT WILL NEVER
WORK.!
"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 of business
books for Prentice Hall, 1957
'Commenting on the Microchip' "But what
... is it good for?"
--Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division
of IBM, 1968.
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in
their home."
--Ken Olson, founder, chairman and president 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."
--David Signoff'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.)
"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.
"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 Exercise Equipment.
"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.
"640K
ought to be enough for anybody."
--Bill Gates, 1981
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