Main Quotes main index Narrative
|
Ryan: (as gangster, dialing phone) Someday they're gonna invent a phone where you just push buttons. Colin: You're crazy! "You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bon-fire under her deck? I have no time for such nonsense."
— Napoleon Bonaparte on the steamship.
"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication."
— Western Union internal memo, 1876.
"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible."
—Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Privacy Policy
24