Are you allowing the opinions of others to stand in your way? Locked down by someone elses words?

Consider these quips from the past!

* "... after a few more flashes in the pan, we shall hear very little more of Edison or his electric lamp. Every claim he makes has been tested and proved impracticable."
- New York Times, 16th January 1880

* "Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible
- Lord Kelvin, British physicist, 1895.

* "There is no likelihood that man can ever tap the power of the atom"
- Robert Millikan, Nobel Prize physicist, 1923.

* "There is no hope for the fanciful idea of reaching the moon because of insurmountable barriers to escaping the earth's gravity"
- Dr. F. R. Moulton, University of Chicago astronomer, 1932.

* "Radio has no future."
- Lord Kelvin, Scottish physicist, 1897.

* "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943.

* "Everything that can be invented has been invented."
- Charles Duell, U.S. Commissioner of Patents, 1899.

* "Man will not fly for 50 years."
- Orville Wright, aviation pioneer, 1901.

* "What use could this company make of an electrical toy [telephone]?"
- William Orton, President of Western Union.

* "The horse is here to stay the automobile is only a fad."
- Advice given by the President of Michigan Savings Bank to Horace Rackham, lawyer of Henry Ford.

* "Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value."
- Marshal Ferdinand Foch, French military strategist, 1911.

* "Nobody now fears that a Japanese fleet could deal an unexpected blow on our Pacific possessions. Radio makes surprise impossible."
- Josephus Daniels, U.S. Secretary of the Navy, 1922.

* "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 in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957.

* "Germany is unable to wage war."
- David Lloyd George, British Prime Minister, 1934.

* "But what... is it good for?"
- Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip.

* "[Concerning television], people will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night."
- Darryl F. Zanuck, 20th Century Fox, 1946 (JG).

* "Computers in the future may perhaps only weigh 1.5 tons."
- Popular Mechanics, 1949.

* "[Man will never reach the Moon] regardless of all future scientific advances."
- Dr. Lee de Forest, a father of radio, 1967.

* "There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home."
- Kenneth Olsen, President and Founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977.

* "The dream of some Zionists for the restoration of Hebrew as a living language has as little chance of success as the dream of the restoration of a Jewish state in Palestine."
- Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1905.

* "640K ought to be enough for anybody"
- Bill Gates, 1981