Top 10 All-Time Stupid Quotes

10. "There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home."
KENNETH OLSEN, PRESIDENT AND FOUNDER OF DIGITAL
EQUIPMENT CORPORATION

9. "Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value."
MARSHAL FERDINAND FOCH, FRENCH MILITARY STRATEGIST
AND FUTURE WORLD WAR 1 COMMANDER, IN 1911

8. "Man will never reach the moon regardless of all future scientific advances."
DR LEE DE FOREST, INVENTOR OF THE AUDION TUBE AND FATHER OF RADIO, ON FEBRUARY 25, 1967

7. "Television won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night."
DARRYL F. ZANUCK, HEAD OF 20TH CENTURY-FOX IN 1946

6. "We don't like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out."
DECCA RECORDS REJECTING THE BEATLES IN 1962

5. "For the majority of people, the use of tobacco has a beneficial effect."
DR. IAN G MACDONALD, LOS ANGELES SURGEON, AS QUOTED IN NEWSWEEK, NOVEMBER 18, 1969

4. "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, IN 1876

3. "The earth is the center of the universe."
PTOLEMY, THE GREAT EGYPTIAN ASTRONOMER, IN THE SECOND CENTURY

2. "Nothing of importance happened today."
WRITTEN BY KING GEORGE III OF ENGLAND ON JULY 4, 1776

1. "Everything that can be invented has been invented."
CHARLES H. DUELL, U.S. COMMISSIONER OF PATENTS, IN 1899

9. "Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value."
MARSHAL FERDINAND FOCH, FRENCH MILITARY STRATEGIST
AND FUTURE WORLD WAR 1 COMMANDER, IN 1911 - figures he was french. Idiots.

6. "We don't like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out."
DECCA RECORDS REJECTING THE BEATLES IN 1962 - BWA HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!


2. "Nothing of importance happened today."
WRITTEN BY KING GEORGE III OF ENGLAND ON JULY 4, 1776 - King of England? Sounds more like the Queen of Denial.

That was pretty cool. These were my favs.

9. "Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value."
MARSHAL FERDINAND FOCH, FRENCH MILITARY STRATEGIST
AND FUTURE WORLD WAR 1 COMMANDER, IN 1911

I wonder why the French named an aircraft carrier after him?

I wonder why the French named an aircraft carrier after him?
French aircraft carrier? That would do no damage to the enemy, but it would foch the French soldiers over pretty well.

I wonder why the French named an aircraft carrier after him?

The French love of irony? ;)

The French love of irony? ;)
i thought that was the Irish that loved irony?

French aircraft carrier? That would do no damage to the enemy, but it would foch the French soldiers over pretty well.

I think had an actual cold war skirmish broken out, the ship would have been scuttled immediately and the life rafts equipped with white flags.

This is nice evidence that any future-prediction threads out there can rarely be treated seriously.