Variety magazine, 1955
Charles Darwin, writing in the foreword to On the Origin of Species, 1859
Economist Irving Fisher in October 1929, three days before the stock market crash that triggered the Great Depression
A Decca Records executive to the band's manager, Brian Epstein, following an audition in 1962. He continued: "We don't like your boys' sound. Groups are out. Four-piece groups with guitars, particularly, are finished."
John Langdon-Davies, A Short History of the Future, 1936
Guglielmo Marconi, pioneer of radio, writing in Technical World magazine, October 1912
Kaiser Wilhelm II to German troops at the outset of World War One, August 1914
Surgeon General of the United States William H. Stewart, speaking to the U.S. Congress in 1969
Lt. Joseph Ives, after visiting the Grand Canyon in 1861
Dr. Dionysys Larder, science writer and academic, in 1828
Robert Millikan, American physicist and Nobel Prize winner, 1923
The president of the Michigan Savings Bank advising Henry Ford’s lawyer, Horace Rackham, not to invest in the Ford Motor Company, 1903
William Orton, president of Western Union, in 1876, when Alexander Graham Bell tried to sell the company his invention
Charlie Chaplin in 1916, two years into his big-screen acting career. The rest of the quote: "It's canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage.
An aide to British military commander Field Marshal Haig wrote this in a report following a tank demonstration, 1916
Thomas Edison, 1889. The lightbulb inventor insisted his own direct current (DC) system was superior to competitor George Westinghouse's AC power, and took every opportunity to discredit alternating current
Mary Somerville, pioneer of radio educational broadcasts, 1948
Alan Sugar, 2005
Sci-fi writer Bruce Sterling in The New York Times, 2007
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#18 he was right about canned drama; cinema emerged, TV came next, but stage shows still don't die
#19 yes he was, armor and cavalry (real fast moving land troops) were and are different subbranches of the military, the only change by now is that modern horses are called personnel carriers.
#23 as an object of obsession - yes, mainly.
#25 yes; the users go stupider by getting used to less size messages. The key word is LITERATE.