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Geniale!

1984 is a failure
Laurence Brander - British literary scholar and critic, 1954

Hasn't anyone noticed that the worst criminal have been corrupted, since their infancy, by injurious reading? Hasn't anyone beheld them, in the course of their trials, confessing that it was sordid literature that dragged them onto the road which ended fatally at prison?
E. Caron - Director of Education for the city of Paris, 1874

No danger at all. We've hired him for pur act... Within two months we will have pushed Hitler so far in the corner that he'll squeak
Franz von Papen - Former chancellor of Germany, 1933

My invention can be exploited for a certain time as a scientific curiosity, but apart from that it has no commercial value whatsoever
Auguste Lumière - French co-inventor of the Lumière motion-picture camera. 1895

You'd better learn secretarial work or else get married
Emmeline Snively - Director of the Blue Book Moelling agency, counseling would-be model Marilyn Monroe, 1944

When the Paris Exhibition closes, electric light will close with it and no more will be heard of it
Erasmus Wilson - Professor at Oxford University, 1878

The telephone is an amazing invention, but who would ever want to use one of them?
Rutherford Hayes - President of the United States, 1876

What the hell is the computer good for?
Robert Lloyd - engineer at the Advance Computing Systems division of Internation Business Machines, 1968

Man will never reach the moon regardless of all future scientific advances
Dr. Lee DrForest - Inventor of the audion tube, 1957
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