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• The cinema is little more than a fad. It's canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Art, Drama, Blood

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• Two years from now, spam will be solved.

  Bill Gates

  Stupid, Years, Two

  "Tech’s Most Dubious Promises, From Bill Gates to Elon Musk". www.wired.com. July 26, 2017.

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• Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?

  Harry Warner

  Inspirational, Witty, Humorous

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• An experiment disproving a prediction is discovery.

  Enrico Fermi

  Discovery, Experiments

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• 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

  Failure, Silly, Creativity

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• A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service: The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible.

  Frederick W. Smith

  Ideas, Yale, Order

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• The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon.

  John Eric Erichsen

  Funny, Wise, Technology

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• I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper.

  Gary Cooper

  Silly, Fall, Dumb

  "Gone with the Wind/ Trivia". www.imdb.com. 1939.

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• Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy!

  Edwin Drake

  Crazy, Mean, Technology

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• 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.'

  Steve Jobs

  Life, Silly, Technology

  "The Future of Computing Power (Fast, Cheap, and Invisible)" by Michio Kaku, bigthink.com.

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• While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility.

  Lee De Forest

  May, Television, Impossibility

  1926 In the NewYork Times.

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• If I am going to trash others for their dumb predictions, I must at least hold myself to the same sort of accountability.

  Barry Ritholtz

  Accountability, Dumb, Trash

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• There is an excellent way to make predictions without the slightest risk of error: predict the past.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Inspirational, Art, Past

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• Prediction, not narration, is the real test of our understanding of the world.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Real, Understanding, World

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility"”, p.133, Random House

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• The best way to predict the future is to create it.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?

  David Sarnoff

  Silly, Creativity, Dumb

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• I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man's future, that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring.

  Julien Benda

  Past, Men, Would Be

  Julien Benda (2011). “The Treason of the Intellectuals”, p.197, Transaction Publishers

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• One of the predictions that I was the first to make is now materializing, and that prediction was that Obama isn't going away. That Obama is going to hang around Washington and do everything he can to undermine the next president, particularly if and when the next president tries to unravel any of the gigantic web of deceit and debauchery that Obama has implemented as president.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Ifs And, Going Away, Trying

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth - all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne. I am bold enough to say that such a man-made voyage will never occur regardless of all future advances.

  Lee De Forest

  Dream, Future, Men

  "De Forest Says Space Travel Is Impossible". "Lewiston Morning Tribune" Newspaper, February 25, 1957.

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• Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.

  Irving Fisher

  Funny, Depression, Money

  "Incoming Presidential Speech: International Society for the Systems Sciences 43rd Annual Meeting" by Peter Corning, complexsystems.org. June 02, 2015.

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• It will be years - not in my time - before a woman will become Prime Minister

  Margaret Thatcher

  Years, Investing, Prime

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• I never make predictions and I never will.

  Paul Gascoigne

  Football, Funny Football, Stupid Sports

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• With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Hope, Hope For The Future, Inaugural Address

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.475, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We must now allow ourselves to be blinded to long-term developments by the intensity of the short-term difficulties.

  Stafford Cripps

  Long, Development, Intensity

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• A plan is an example of what could happen, not a prediction of what will happen.

  Kent Beck

  Example, Plans, Happens

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