History Quotes / ItWillNeverCatchOn

-->--'''Ryunosuke Naruhodo''', ''VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorney''

-->--''[[Webcomic/{{Hiimdaisy}} Let's Destroy The Shagohod!]]''

->'''Green Lantern:''' Wait, which side are you on?\\
'''Bizarro:''' Me on side of injustice and oppression.\\

->Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-->-- '''Creator/BertrandRussell'''

!!In-Universe

!!Real Life
[[folder:Aeronautics]]
->''"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible."''
-->-- '''Lord Kelvin''', president, Royal Society, 1895

->''"Very interesting, Whittle my boy, but it will never work."''
-->-- '''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Whittle Frank Whittle]]'s Aeronautical Engineering teacher''', on his turbojet

->''"Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible."''
-->-- '''Simon Newcomb''', 1902

->''"If man were meant to fly, God would have given him wings."''
-->-- '''Milton Wright''', father of the Wright brothers

->''"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value."''
-->-- '''Ferdinand Foch''', 1911 (interestingly, he would have [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_aircraft_carrier_Foch a military aircraft carrier named after him]])
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[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
->''"[[IncrediblyLamePun This is going to tank]]."''
-->-- '''Togame''''s comment at an ''Anime News Network'' [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/bbs/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1049068 discussion thread]] on the first promo video for ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer''
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Architecture]]
->''"We, writers, painters, sculptors, architects and passionate devotees of the hitherto untouched beauty of Paris, protest with all our strength, with all our indignation in the name of slighted French taste, against the erection… of this useless and monstrous Eiffel Tower… To bring our arguments home, imagine for a moment a giddy, ridiculous tower dominating Paris like a gigantic black smokestack, crushing under its barbaric bulk Notre Dame, the Tour Saint-Jacques, the Louvre, the Dome of les Invalides, the Arc de Triomphe, all of our humiliated monuments will disappear in this ghastly dream. And for twenty years… we shall see stretching like a blot of ink the hateful shadow of the hateful column of bolted sheet metal."''
-->-- '''Charles Alphand'''
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[[folder:Automobiles]]
->''"It looks like a poached egg—we can't make that."''
-->-- '''William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield''' upon seeing the design for the Morris Minor for the first time.

->''"Does it come with a can-opener?"''
-->-- A likely-apocryphal remark by an American automotive journalist, on the Citroën 2CV's debut at the 1948 Paris Motor Show.

->''"With over 50 foreign cars already on sale here, the Japanese auto industry isn't likely to carve out a big slice of the US market"''
-->-- '''Businessweek''', August 1968.
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[[folder:Biology]]
->The year which has passed has not, indeed, been marked by any of those striking discoveries which at once revolutionize, so to speak, the department of science on which they bear.
-->-- '''Thomas Bell''', the year after the publishing of UsefulNotes/CharlesDarwin's ''On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.''
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[[folder:Comics]]
->''"Come on, Creator/{{Stan|Lee}}, people hate spiders. They're creepy. And everybody knows that teenagers are [[KidSidekick sidekicks]], not superheroes. This [[Franchise/SpiderMan Spider-Man]] idea just won't sell."''
-->-- '''Martin Goodman''', founder of Creator/MarvelComics, 1962

->''"This is an original fantasy book with no superheroes, two non-white leads and an opening chapter featuring graphic robot sex. I thought we might be cancelled by our third issue."''
-->-- '''Creator/BrianKVaughan''', about ''ComicBook/{{Saga}}''

->''"Look, we didn't think it'd make for a successful comic book either, but here we are."''
-->-- Recap page in issue #6 of ''ComicBook/MoneyShot''
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Computers]]
->''"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."''
-->-- '''Thomas J. Watson''', CEO of IBM (attributed), 1943

->''"Get [[LeaningOnTheFurniture your feet off my desk]]. [[GetOut Get out of here.]] [[NewAgeRetroHippie You stink.]] And we're '''not''' going to buy your product."''
-->-- '''Joe Keenan''', President of Creator/{{Atari}}, responding to Creator/SteveJobs' offer to sell him the rights to Apple

->''"The whole conception is flawed at the top because people don't read anymore."''
-->-- '''Creator/SteveJobs''' discussing the Kindle

->''"No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame."''
-->-- '''[[Website/{{Slashdot}} Rob Malda]]''' on the iPod, 2001

->''"I'm doing a [[UsefulNotes/{{UNIX}} (free) operating system]] (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386 (486) AT clones.[...] It is NOT portable (uses 386 task switching etc.), and it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks."''
-->-- '''Linus Torvalds'''

->''"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home."''
-->-- '''Ken Olsen''', founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977

->''"Visionaries see a future of telecommuting workers, interactive libraries and multimedia classrooms. They speak of electronic town meetings and virtual communities. Commerce and business will shift from offices and malls to networks and modems. And the freedom of digital networks will make government more democratic. Baloney."''
-->-- '''Clifford Stoll''', 1995

->''"[In 1951,] I went to see Professor Douglas Hartree, who had built the first differential analyzers in England and had more experience in using these very specialized computers than anyone else. He told me that, in his opinion, all the calculations that would ever be needed in this country could be done on the three digital computers which were then being built — one in Cambridge, one in Teddington, and one in Manchester. No one else, he said, would ever need machines of their own, or would be able to afford to buy them."''
-->-- '''Lord Bowden''', 1970

->''"The Internet? We are not interested in it."''
-->-- '''Bill Gates''', 1993

->''"We did a lot of things that seemed crazy at the time. Many of those crazy things now have over a billion users, like Google Maps, [=YouTube=], Chrome, and Android. And we haven’t stopped there. We are still trying to do things other people think are crazy but we are super excited about."''
-->-- '''Larry Page''', co-founder of Website/{{Google}}

->''"By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's."''
-->-- '''Paul Krugman''', Nobel Prize-winning economist, 1998
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[[folder:Fashion]]
->''"Not one man I have spoken to likes a woman in mini skirts."''
-->--'''Coco Chanel''', 1969
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Film]]
->''"The cinema is an invention without any future."''
-->-- '''The Lumière Brothers'''

->''"Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage."''
-->-- '''Creator/CharlieChaplin'''

->''"Can't act. Balding. Dances a little."''
-->-- Apocryphal note from Creator/FredAstaire screen test

->''"Burn the negative and collect the insurance."''
-->-- Producer '''Aaron Russo''' on the initial cut of ''Film/DirtyDancing''

->''"I thought for sure it was [[DirectToVideo direct-to-video]]... it just seemed like such a simple story. Guy looking for his daughter. ''[mimes leafing through a script]'' Ho hum. Hmm. Ooh, [[CaptainObviousReveal he finds her]]!"''
-->-- '''Creator/LiamNeeson''' on ''{{Film/Taken}}'', ''60 Minutes''

->''"[[Creator/SeanConnery Connery]] just quit movies after this one, which he only agreed to do because he was bitter over turning down a part called "Gandalf" in [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings a movie about midgets or some shit]]...a decision that cost him $450 million dollars -- the guy could have his own tropical island nation today if he had just asked someone else, 'Hey, is this Tolkien guy any good?' But then the money gods who had favored him for so many decades pitied him and gave him another chance: They also offered him a role in ''Film/TheMatrix'', though he hasn't confirmed which one. Once again Connery couldn't make heads or tails of it and turned it down, and once again the movie went on to make big bucks."''
-->-- '''{{Website/Cracked}}''' [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-movies-that-made-huge-stars-quit-acting-forever/#ixzz2zGE8lz8I on]] ''Film/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen''

->''"He's ruining the movie!"''
-->-- '''Michael Eisner''', about Creator/JohnnyDepp, while watching a preview of ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl''

->''"No [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar Civil War]] movie ever made a nickel!"''
-->-- '''Louis B. Mayer''' on ''Film/GoneWithTheWind''

->''"I'm just glad it'll be Creator/ClarkGable who's falling on his face, and not Creator/GaryCooper."''
-->-- '''Gary Cooper''' on turning down the part of Rhett Butler

->''"And last, but not least, my agent, who about ten years ago advised me that I had no business being an actor. [[DeadpanSnarker Thank you]]."''
-->-- '''Creator/JackNicholson''' in his first Oscar acceptance speech
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[[folder:Literature]]
->The style of his tale is in places disfigured by mad (rather than bad) English; and its catastrophe is hastily, weakly, and obscurely managed…We have little more to say in reprobation or in recommendation of this absurd book…Mr. Melville has to thank himself only if his horrors and his heroics are flung aside by the general reader, as so much trash belonging to the worst school of Bedlam literature -- since he seems not so much unable to learn as disdainful of learning the craft of an artist.
-->-- '''Henry F. Chorley''', reviewing ''Literature/MobyDick''
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[[folder:Locations]]
->''"'Kid,' [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugsy_Siegel he]] said, 'someday there'll be 50 hotels here and it'll be [[UsefulNotes/LasVegas the entertainment capital of America]].' I thought to myself, 'No wonder they call him [[KosherNostra Bugsy]].'"''
-->-- '''Creator/AlanKing'''
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Music]]
->''"You better keep to your trucks, boy, 'cause you're never going to be a musician."''
-->-- A man to Music/ElvisPresley

->''"No one had much faith in me because I was so young. They imagined a little brat with a flash-in-the-pan single."''
-->-- '''Creator/BilliePiper'''

->'''"2013 Grammys" Todd:''' Does anyone really care about Music/JohnLegend? I mean, I didn't even know he had a song out this year, uh... Did ''you'''?\\
''"2 Months Later" Todd:''' GOD DAMN MOTHER--! HOW AM I SO BAD AT THIS? Just ''once'' I want to say something doesn't matter and have it ''not'' matter!
-->-- WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows [[http://blip.tv/todds-pop-song-reviews/all-of-me-by-john-legend-a-pop-song-review-6830631 on]] "All of Me"

->''"Guitar is a good hobby, John, but you'll never make a living of it."''
-->-- Music/JohnLennon's '''Aunt Mimi'''

->''"Guitar groups are on the way out. [...] The Beatles have no future in show business."''
-->-- '''Dick Rowe''', Decca Records executive, rejecting Music/TheBeatles

->''"'Weird Al' Yankovic, your fifteen minutes are up."''
-->-- ''Film/{{UHF}}''

->''"He's not going to go far, is he? He's just not star material."''
-->-- '''Judy Willis''' on Music/DavidBowie

->''"Male vocal in the 1968 feeling—thin, piercing voice with no emotional appeal...dreary songs...one-key singer...pretentious material."''
-->-- Creator/TheBBC's review of Music/EltonJohn's first single, "Lady Samantha"

->''"You'll sink, like a lead balloon... no, no, even faster; like a lead zeppelin."''
-->-- '''[[Music/TheWho Keith Moon]]''' to Jimmy Page, about his new band... "[[Music/LedZeppelin The New Yardbirds]]"

->''"I've heard they have beautiful lights but they don't sound like nothing."''
-->-- '''Music/JimiHendrix''' on Music/PinkFloyd

->''"I'm a songwriter and that's no hit."''
-->-- '''Music/MichaelNesmith''' on Music/TheMonkees' "I'm a Believer"

->''"I’m going to go out on a limb and say that there is no way that a [[{{Music/BTS}} K-pop boy group]] will make it big in the States."''
-->-- John Seabrook, [[https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/10/hit-charade/403192/?single_page=true writing for]] the ''New Yorker'', 2015
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Newspapers]]
->''"Fortunately, the question of whether the puzzles are beneficial or harmful is in no urgent need of an answer. The craze evidently is dying out fast and in a few months it will be forgotten."''
-->-- '''An editorial''' from ''The New Republic'', 1925, on the CrosswordPuzzle
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Physics]]
->''"If [[UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein Einstein]]'s equation and Aston's curve are even roughly correct, as I'm sure they are, for Dr. Cameron and I have computed with their aid the maximum energy evolved in radioactive change and found it to check well with observation, then this supposition of an energy evolution through the disintegration of the common elements is from the one point of view a childish Utopian dream, and from the other a foolish bugaboo."''
-->-- '''Robert Andrews Millikan''', on nuclear fission

->''"The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine."''
-->-- '''Ernest Rutherford''', 1933
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[[folder:Politics]]
->''"An agent had suggested UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan for the lead. We all had a good laugh. He was by no means a bad actor, but he would hardly be convincing, I said with the eerie prescience which has earned me the title [[SelfDeprecation the American Nostradamus]], as a presidential candidate."''
-->-- '''Creator/GoreVidal''' on ''The Best Man''

->''"The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here..."''
-->-- '''UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln''', "The Gettysburg Address" ([[{{Irony}} the most famous speech in American history]])

->''"I don't think there will be a woman prime minister in my lifetime."''
-->-- '''UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher''', 1973

->''"There will never be a revolution in Russia."''
-->-- '''Creator/AntonChekhov''', Letters of Anton Chekhov, Feb 9, 1888

->''"[[http://poorimpulsecontrol.net/blog/uploaded_images/hitlerprison-748470.jpg HITLER TAMED BY PRISON. Released on parole, he is expected to return to Austria]]"''
-->-- ''The New York Times'', 1924

->''"Hitler is now definitely cut off from power. He is even, if I may say so, cut off from the hope of coming to power."''
-->-- '''Léon Blum''', 1932

->''"Hitler's disappearance from the political scene is likely."''
-->-- '''Oreste Rosenfeld''', January 1, 1933

->''"Creator/DonaldTrump has been saying that he will run for President as a Republican, which is surprising since I just assumed he was running as a joke."''
-->-- '''Creator/SethMeyers''', in front of the future POTUS at the White House Correspondents' Dinner in 2011

->'''Bill Maher:''' Ann, which Republican candidate has the best chance of winning the general election?\\
'''Ann Coulter:''' Of the declared ones right now, Donald Trump.\\
(''Cue mass laughter'')
-->-- '''Series/RealTimeWithBillMaher''', 2015

->''"Remember, Donald Trump was, once upon a time, a failed Reform Party candidate. Tucker Carlson was once booed at CPAC. Times change."''
-->-- '''Matt Lewis''', "[[https://www.thedailybeast.com/mike-pence-and-nikki-haley-arent-the-future-of-the-goptheyre-roadkill Pence and Haley Aren’t the Future of the GOP—They’re Roadkill]]", 2021
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[[folder:Radio]]
->''"The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?"''
-->-- A Western Union internal memo, 1876
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sports]]
->''"Huh. Another new game."''
-->-- '''Frank Mahan''', upon hearing of UsefulNotes/{{Basketball}}

->''"Poor build. Very skinny and narrow. Ended the '99 season weighing 195 pounds and still looks like a rail at 211. Looks a little frail and lacks great physical stature and strength. Can get pushed down more easily than you'd like. Lacks mobility and ability to avoid the rush. Lacks a really strong arm. Can't drive the ball down the field and does not throw a really tight spiral. System-type player who can get exposed if he must ad-lib and do things on his own."''
-->-- '''Creator/TomBrady's scouting report''' for the 2000 NFL Draft

->''"He possesses minimal football knowledge and lacks motivation."''
-->-- '''Early scouting report''' on NFL coach Vince Lombardi

->''"[Tom Tatham] had a fellow named Ted Keefer who worked for him, who was their advisor ... and Ted said "put that son of a bitch up" and said "I've seen him enough". This was another time and Pete Logan said ... "Mr. Keefer, the roses look mighty pretty around his neck." And Ted said, "the only time that son of a bitch'll have roses on him is when he's 6 feet under the ground." ... [Then they put him in the summer sale] at Keeneland, he was going to go for 10, 11, 12 thousand; I jumped in and started bidding, bought him back for 17. I took the ticket out to Tom behind the pavillion and said "Tom, I bought that Colt back for you, the Wishing Well colt 'cause he went too cheap" and he said "Arthur, we don't want him 'cause Ted doesn't like him" ... I stuck [the sales slip] in my shirt pocket and I remember thinking "Well, I guess I just blew another 17,000." I owed a lot of money at the time."''
-->-- '''Arthur Hancock III''' on Sunday Silence
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[[folder:Television]]
->''"People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box all night."''
-->-- '''Darryl F. Zanuck''', President of 20th Century Fox, declining to invest in the television set

->''"TV will never be a serious competitor for radio because people must sit and keep their eyes glued on a screen; the average American family hasn't time for it."''
-->-- ''The New York Times'', 1939

->''"We were driving through the Kent countryside, and my mum was reading the paper. She said "oooh, they're going to change Series/DoctorWho. It's going to be Creator/TomBaker next." And I remember being absolutely outraged. How dare they [[TheNthDoctor change the Doctor]]! How dare they turn Creator/JonPertwee into Tom Baker! He'll be rubbish!"''
-->-- '''Creator/SophieAldred'''

->''"They said of casting Creator/DavidTennant as Casanova, 'Damn, you should have cast [[HollywoodUgly someone sexier]].' With Creator/BenedictCumberbatch, we were told the same thing. 'You promised us a sexy Sherlock, not ''[[HollywoodHomely him]]''.'"''
-->-- '''Creator/StevenMoffat'''

->''"I'm told there is a visitor for me, and it's Patrick Stewart, who I'd not seen in years. Patrick told me, "I'm doing a science fiction thing." I asked him what and he told me ''Franchise/StarTrek'' and I told him, "Oh no, not that hackneyed thing!" And he responded, [[MoneyDearBoy "Well, it will be a nice little pension for me."]]"''
-->-- '''Creator/MalcolmMcDowell''' on Creator/PatrickStewart

->''"Overall reactions to this pilot were not very favorable. Interest in the show was very narrow."''
-->-- '''Creator/{{NBC}}''' [[http://www.thesmokinggun.com/file/friends-anniversary internal memo]] on ''{{Series/Friends}}''

->''"The final shot of the CSM walking amongst the alien artefacts that are tucked away at the Pentagon is a real appetite whetter. Imagine if this really was a standalone TV movie; the untapped potential would have been ''an extraordinary waste.''...There is something a little off about the chemistry between [[Creator/GillianAnderson Anderson]] and [[Creator/DavidDuchovny Duchovny]] at some points in the first episode – his performance screams of trying to enjoy this for as long as it lasts and hers occasionally tips into ''[='=][[ClassicallyTrainedExtra what am I doing here?]][='=]'' How little they both knew that this was going to change their lives."''
-->-- '''[[http://docohobigfinish.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/x-files-season-one.html Joe Ford]]''' on ''Series/TheXFiles'', "[[Recap/TheXFilesS01E01 Pilot]]"

->''"[TV comedy is] dead. Forever. Bury it."''
-->-- '''Lewis Erlicht''' passing on ''Series/TheCosbyShow'', 1984

->''"I can't see that face on a lunchbox."''
-->-- '''Brandon Tartikoff''' before reluctantly allowing Creator/MichaelJFox to be cast on ''Series/FamilyTies''

->''"I was given the script and the manga it was based on... But I thought, "[[Main/WhoWouldWantToWatchUs Who's going to watch this]]? It's a late night show on Creator/TVTokyo[[note]]Out of the major terrestrial networks in Japan, TV Tokyo is the smallest[[/note]] about a guy that eats food all by himself. There's no way audience will enjoy this." I expected this to be a laughing stock a few years later and wasn't something I wanted to tell people about."''
-->--'''Yutaka Matsushige''', on his [[LongRunners long-runner]] TV Show, ''Series/KodokuNoGurume''
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[[folder:Telephony]]
->''"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication."''
-->-- Another Western Union internal memo, 1876

->''"The telephone is a curious device that might fairly find place in the magic of Arabian Tales. Of what use is such an invention?"''
-->-- A newspaper reporter, 1876

->''"...it doesn't appeal to business customers because it doesn't have a keyboard, which makes it not a very good email machine."''
-->-- '''Steve Ballmer''', then-CEO of Microsoft, on the iPhone, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eywi0h_Y5_U 2007]]
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[[folder:Transportation]]
->''"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."''
-->-- '''UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte''' on the steamship

->''"My grandfather's reply was simple and final: 'All nothing but nonsense. The railways are a mere fad, and will soon be done away with. Yes, within three years; and then we shall be entirely back to the horses and coaches again.'"''
-->-- '''Ernest Thompson-Seton'''
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[[folder:Video Games]]
->''"No one buys a game specifically for multiplayer options."''
-->-- '''George Wood''', ''Series/GamingInTheClintonYears'' episode on ''VideoGame/GoldenEye1997'', circa late 1990s

->''"[[StealthBasedGame Hiding from your enemies?]] That's not a game!"''
-->-- Anecdotal response to Creator/HideoKojima's initial pitch for ''[[VideoGame/MetalGear1 Metal Gear]]''

->''"No one on ''Website/{{Youtube}}'' will watch tihs."''
-->-- '''paulinehtor''', a ''Website/{{Twitch}}'' user watching a speedrun attempt, immortalized by Summoning Salt's [[VideoGame/WiiSportsResort The History of Wii Sports Resort]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XkKufyIiAY Golf]]

->''"I was stupid enough to sell [[Creator/CdProjektRed them]] rights to the whole bunch. They offered me a percentage of their profits. I said, ‘No, there will be no profit at all — give me all my money right now! The whole amount.’ It was stupid. I was stupid enough to leave everything in their hands because I didn’t believe in their success. But who could foresee their success? I couldn’t."''
-->-- '''Creator/AndrzejSapkowski''' on his decision to sell the game rights to ''Franchise/TheWitcher''
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Theatre]]
->''"No jokes, no tits, no chance!"''
-->--'''Michael Todd''' during the intermission of ''Away We Go'', later renamed ''Theatre/{{Oklahoma}}''
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Weapons]]
->''"I consider machine guns an absurdity in a field army of normal composition."''
-->--'''Mikhail Ivanovich Dragomirov'''

->''"That thing will never make a fighter."''
-->--'''Ernst Udet''' on the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_Bf_109 Messerschmitt Bf 109]]

->''"Aero planes are interesting toys but of no military value."''
-->--'''Ferdinand Foch''', 1910
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[[folder:Wrestling]]
->''"It was obvious that things weren't going to change for the mid-carders, and any of them able to get out of the promotion was doing just that. On June 30 [1999], Wrestling/ChrisJericho signed with the [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} WWF]]. In the six months prior to his contract signing, {{Wrestling/WCW}} had made very little effort to retain him... Many of the wrestlers in WCW were upset, because Jericho was well liked, and they couldn't believe the company wouldn't offer him a good deal while it was throwing money away on limos, Humvees, fired NBA stars and rappers. Instead, Chris Jericho, who had always been told that he was too small, couldn't sell tickets, and wasn't a ratings draw, made his debut later that summer in a confrontation with [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson The Rock]] and helped ''[[Wrestling/WWERaw Raw]]'' obliterate ''[[Wrestling/WCWMondayNitro Nitro]]'' in the ratings that evening by over four points."''
-->--'''R. D. Reynolds''' and '''Bryan Alvarez''', ''Literature/TheDeathOfWCW''

->''"The next day, one of the guys asked for my impression of [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson Rocky]]. "Hey, he's a nice guy," I said, "but he just doesn't have it. The office should really cut their losses and get rid of the guy." I had no idea I was talking about the future People's and Corporate Champion."''
-->--'''Mick Foley'''
[[/folder]]

'''Green Lantern:''' That won't fly.\\

->'''Green Lantern:''' I'll say it: This is awkward.\\
'''Supergirl:''' Kal doesn't belong in prison!\\

-->-- '''Alan King'''

-->-- '''Matt Lewis''', "[[https://www.thedailybeast.com/mike-pence-and-nikki-haley-arent-the-future-of-the-goptheyre-roadkill Pence and Haley Aren’t the Future of the GOP—They’re Roadkill]]"

[[folder:Fiction]]

-->--'''''Film/ShallWeDance''''', "They All Laughed"

->'''R.F. Simpson''': ''(apropos new sound technology for films)'' What do you think of it, Dexter?\\
'''Rosco''': It'll never amount to a thing.\\
'''Olga''': Its ''vulgar.''\\

->'''Brain-2-Me-2:''' [[AreYouPonderingWhatImPondering Are you pondering what I'm pondering]], 3-Pinky-O?\\
'''3-Pinky-O:''' I think so, Brain-2, but a show about two talking lab mice? [[WhoWouldWantToWatchUs Heh, it'll never get on the air.]]
-->--''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'', "Star Warners"

->Hey, [[Creator/JackieChan Chon]], you're lucky I didn't invest in that ridiculous 'auto-mobile' idea.
-->--'''Roy O'Bannon''', ''[[Film/ShanghaiNoon Shanghai Knights]]''

->'''The Boss''': Apparently, there are those in the U.S. military who consider camouflage too 'passive' a technique.\\
'''Snake''': Morons.
-->--''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater''

->'''Sigint''': Yeah, man. A walking tank? That's stupid.\\
'''Snake''': I know, right? And what kind of name is 'Metal Gear' anyway? That will never catch on.\\
'''Sigint''': Seriously, man. No one's gonna go with that.\\
''[[RimShot *BA-DUM TSH!*]]''
-->--''[[WebComic/{{Hiimdaisy}} Let's Destroy The Shagohod!]]''

->'''Ryan:''' ''(as gangster, dialing phone)'' Someday they're gonna invent a phone where you just push buttons.\\
'''Colin:''' You're crazy!
-->--''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway''

->So much for this automobile of yours. If this is the future, God help us all. ... I can ''walk'' faster than this piece of shit! Give me a horse anyday!
-->--'''John Marston''', ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption''

->'''Mr. Big:''' What do you think is up with all this costume critters poppin' up all over the place? Dan here thinks it's a fad. Like what did you say? Like break-dancing.
-->--''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan''

->Come on...nobody's gonna drive this lousy freeway when they can take the Red Car for a nickel.

->The bicycle fad won't last. I don't see why anyone would want to ride something like that.
-->--'''Ryunosuke Naruhodo:''', ''VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorney''

->I feel the taste may be a little strong for the British palate. It's unlikely to find many fans over here.
-->--'''Beau Brummel''', on curry, ''Series/HorribleHistories''

->Now you're a good surveyor, Dixon, but I swear you'll make me mad\\
The West will kill us both, you gullible Geordie lad\\
You talk of liberty; how can America be free?
-->--'''Music/JamesTaylor''', [[Music/DireStraits Mark Knopfler]]'s "Sailing to Philadelphia"

->''TabletopGame/{{Chess}}'' casts you as king of a small country at war with a rival country of equivalent military power. There is little background story to speak of, and by and large the units in the game are utterly lacking any character whatsoever. The faceless, nondescript units are dubbed arbitrarily such labels as "Knight" and "Bishop" while their appearance reveals nothing to suggest these roles. To make matters worse, the units on both playable sides are entirely identical aside from a simple color palette swap.\\
The setting of the conflict is equally uninspiring and consists merely of a two-color grid so as to represent the two warring factions. Adding insult to injury, there is only one available map - and it's pathetically small, an 8x8 matrix (''Red Alert'' maps are up to 128x128 in size). The lack of more expansive battlefields makes ''Chess'' feel like little more than an over-glorified ''Minesweeper''.
-->--A satirical [[https://www.strategypage.com/humor/articles/20010731.asp 'review' of chess]]

->'''Fozzie Bear:''' Hey dere! Want a lift?\\
'''[[Series/SesameStreet Big Bird]]:''' Oh, no thanks. I'm on my way to New York City to try to break into public television.\\
(Kermit and Fozzie exchange weary looks)\\
'''Fozzie:''' Good luck!
-->--''Film/TheMuppetMovie''

->''"Mark these words: NO ONE will play Music/{{Queen}}."''
-->--'''Ray Foster''', ''Film/BohemianRhapsody''

[[folder:Real Life]]
!!Aeronautics
->Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.
-->--'''Lord Kelvin''', president, Royal Society, 1895

->Very interesting, Whittle my boy, but it will never work.
-->--'''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Whittle Frank Whittle]]'s Aeronautical Engineering teacher''', on his turbojet

->Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible.
-->--'''Simon Newcomb''', 1902

->If man were meant to fly, God would have given him wings.
-->--'''Milton Wright''', father of the Wright brothers

->Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.
-->--'''Ferdinand Foch''', 1911 (interestingly he would have [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_aircraft_carrier_Foch a military aircraft carrier named after him]])

!!Anime & Manga
->[[Main.IncrediblyLamePun This is going to tank]].
-->--'''Togame''''s comment at an ''Anime News Network'' [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/bbs/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1049068 discussion thread]] on the first promo video for ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer''.

!!Architecture
->We, writers, painters, sculptors, architects and passionate devotees of the hitherto untouched beauty of Paris, protest with all our strength, with all our indignation in the name of slighted French taste, against the erection… of this useless and monstrous Eiffel Tower… To bring our arguments home, imagine for a moment a giddy, ridiculous tower dominating Paris like a gigantic black smokestack, crushing under its barbaric bulk Notre Dame, the Tour Saint-Jacques, the Louvre, the Dome of les Invalides, the Arc de Triomphe, all of our humiliated monuments will disappear in this ghastly dream. And for twenty years… we shall see stretching like a blot of ink the hateful shadow of the hateful column of bolted sheet metal.
-->--'''Charles Alphand'''

!!Automobiles
->It looks like a poached egg—we can't make that.
-->'''William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield''' upon seeing the design for the Morris Minor for the first time.

->Does it come with a can-opener?
-->A likely apocryphal remark by an American automotive journalist, on the Citroen 2CV's debut at the 1948 Paris Motor Show.

->With over 50 foreign cars already on sale here, the Japanese auto industry isn't likely to carve out a big slice of the US market
-->'''Businessweek''', August 1968.

!!Biology

-->--'''Thomas Bell''', the year after the publishing of Charles Darwin's ''On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.''

!!Comics
->Come on, [[Creator/StanLee Stan]], people hate spiders. They're creepy. And everybody knows that teenagers are [[KidSidekick sidekicks]], not superheroes. This [[Franchise/SpiderMan Spider-Man]] idea just won't sell.
-->--'''Martin Goodman''', founder of Creator/MarvelComics, 1962

->This is an original fantasy book with no superheroes, two non-white leads and an opening chapter featuring graphic robot sex. I thought we might be cancelled by our third issue.
-->--'''Creator/BrianKVaughan''', about ''ComicBook/{{Saga}}''

->Look, we didn't think it'd make for a successful comic book either, but here we are.
-->--Recap page in issue #6 of ''ComicBook/MoneyShot''

!!Computers
->I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
-->-- '''Thomas J Watson''', CEO of Creator/{{IBM}} (attributed), 1943

->Get [[LeaningOnTheFurniture your feet off my desk]]. [[GetOut Get out of here.]] [[NewAgeRetroHippie You stink.]] And we're '''not''' going to buy your product.
-->--'''Joe Keenan''', President of Creator/{{Atari}}, responding to Creator/SteveJobs' offer to sell him the rights to Apple

->The whole conception is flawed at the top because people don't read anymore.
-->--'''Creator/SteveJobs''' discussing the Kindle

->No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.
-->--'''[[Website/{{Slashdot}} Rob Malda]]''' on the iPod, 2001

->I'm doing a [[UsefulNotes/{{UNIX}} (free) operating system]] (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386 (486) AT clones.[...] It is NOT portable (uses 386 task switching etc.), and it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks.
-->--'''Linus Torvalds'''

->There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-->--'''Ken Olsen''', founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977

->Visionaries see a future of telecommuting workers, interactive libraries and multimedia classrooms. They speak of electronic town meetings and virtual communities. Commerce and business will shift from offices and malls to networks and modems. And the freedom of digital networks will make government more democratic. Baloney.
-->--'''Clifford Stoll''', 1995

->[In 1951,] I went to see Professor Douglas Hartree, who had built the first differential analyzers in England and had more experience in using these very specialized computers than anyone else. He told me that, in his opinion, all the calculations that would ever be needed in this country could be done on the three digital computers which were then being built — one in Cambridge, one in Teddington, and one in Manchester. No one else, he said, would ever need machines of their own, or would be able to afford to buy them.
-->--'''Lord Bowden''', 1970

->The Internet? We are not interested in it.
-->--'''Bill Gates''', 1993

->We did a lot of things that seemed crazy at the time. Many of those crazy things now have over a billion users, like Google Maps, [=YouTube=], Chrome, and Android. And we haven’t stopped there. We are still trying to do things other people think are crazy but we are super excited about.
-->--'''Larry Page''', co-founder of [=Google=]

->By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's.
-->--'''Paul Krugman''', Nobel Prize-winning economist, 1998

!!Fashion
->Not one man I have spoken to likes a woman in mini skirts.

!!Film
->The cinema is an invention without any future.
-->--'''The Lumière Brothers'''

->Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.
-->--'''Creator/CharlieChaplin'''

->Can't act. Balding. Dances a little.
-->--Apocryphal note from Creator/FredAstaire screen test

->“Burn the negative and collect the insurance.”
-->--Producer '''Aaron Russo''' on the initial cut of ''Film/DirtyDancing''

->I thought for sure it was direct-to-video... it just seemed like such a simple story. Guy looking for his daughter.'' [mimes leafing through a script]'' Ho hum. Hmm. Ooh, [[CaptainObviousReveal he finds her]]!
-->--'''Creator/LiamNeeson''' on ''{{Film/Taken}}'', ''60 Minutes''

->[[Creator/SeanConnery Connery]] just quit movies after this one, which he only agreed to do because he was bitter over turning down a part called "Gandalf" in [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings a movie about midgets or some shit]]...a decision that cost him $450 million dollars -- the guy could have his own tropical island nation today if he had just asked someone else, 'Hey, is this Tolkien guy any good?' But then the money gods who had favored him for so many decades pitied him and gave him another chance: They also offered him a role in ''Film/TheMatrix'', though he hasn't confirmed which one. Once again Connery couldn't make heads or tails of it and turned it down, and once again the movie went on to make big bucks.
-->-- '''''{{Website/Cracked}}''''' [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-movies-that-made-huge-stars-quit-acting-forever/#ixzz2zGE8lz8I on]] ''Film/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen''

->He's ruining the movie!
-->--'''Michael Eisner''', about Creator/JohnnyDepp, while watching a preview of ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl''

->No Civil War movie ever made a nickel!
-->--'''Louis B. Mayer''' on ''Film/GoneWithTheWind''

->I'm just glad it'll be Creator/ClarkGable who's falling on his face, and not Creator/GaryCooper.
-->--'''Gary Cooper''' on turning down the part of Rhett Butler

->And last, but not least, my agent, who about ten years ago advised me that I had no business being an actor. [[DeadpanSnarker Thank you]].
-->--'''Creator/JackNicholson''' in his first Oscar acceptance speech

!!Literature

-->--'''Henry F. Chorley''', reviewing ''Literature/MobyDick''

!!Locations
->"Kid," he said, "someday there'll be 50 hotels here and it'll be [[UsefulNotes/LasVegas the entertainment capital of America]]." I thought to myself, "No wonder they call him [[KosherNostra Bugsy]]."
-->--'''Alan King'''

!!Music
->You better keep to your trucks, boy, 'cause you're never going to be a musician.
-->--A man to Music/ElvisPresley

->No one had much faith in me because I was so young. They imagined a little brat with a flash-in-the-pan single.
-->--'''Creator/BilliePiper'''

-->--WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows [[http://blip.tv/todds-pop-song-reviews/all-of-me-by-john-legend-a-pop-song-review-6830631 on]] "All of Me"

->Guitar is a good hobby, John, but you'll never make a living of it.
-->--Music/JohnLennon's '''Aunt Mimi'''

->Guitar groups are on the way out. [...] The Beatles have no future in show business.
-->--'''Dick Rowe''', Decca Records executive, rejecting Music/TheBeatles

->"Weird Al" Yankovic, your fifteen minutes are up.
-->--''Film/{{UHF}}''

->He's not going to go far, is he? He's just not star material.
-->--'''Judy Willis''' on Music/DavidBowie

->Male vocal in the 1968 feeling—thin, piercing voice with no emotional appeal...dreary songs...one-key singer...pretentious material.
-->--Creator/TheBBC's review of Music/EltonJohn's first single, "Lady Samantha"

->You'll sink, like a lead balloon... no, no, even faster; like a lead zeppelin.
-->--'''[[Music/TheWho Keith Moon]]''' to Jimmy Page, about his new band... "[[Music/LedZeppelin The New Yardbirds]]"

->I've heard they have beautiful lights but they don't sound like nothing.
-->--'''Music/JimiHendrix''' on Music/PinkFloyd

->I'm a songwriter and that's no hit.
-->--'''Music/MichaelNesmith''' on Music/TheMonkees' "I'm a Believer"

->I’m going to go out on a limb and say that there is no way that a [[{{Music/BTS}} K-pop boy group]] will make it big in the States.
-->--John Seabrook, [[https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/10/hit-charade/403192/?single_page=true writing for]] the ''New Yorker'', 2015

!!Newspapers
->Fortunately, the question of whether the puzzles are beneficial or harmful is in no urgent need of an answer. The craze evidently is dying out fast and in a few months it will be forgotten.
-->--'''An editorial''' from ''The New Republic'', 1925, on the CrosswordPuzzle

!!Physics
->If [[UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein Einstein]]'s equation and Aston's curve are even roughly correct, as I'm sure they are, for Dr. Cameron and I have computed with their aid the maximum energy evolved in radioactive change and found it to check well with observation, then this supposition of an energy evolution through the disintegration of the common elements is from the one point of view a childish Utopian dream, and from the other a foolish bugaboo.
-->--'''Robert Andrews Millikan''', on nuclear fission

->The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine.
-->--'''Ernest Rutherford''', 1933

!!Politics
->An agent had suggested UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan for the lead. We all had a good laugh. He was by no means a bad actor, but he would hardly be convincing, I said with the eerie prescience which has earned me the title [[SelfDeprecation the American Nostradamus]], as a presidential candidate.
-->--'''Creator/GoreVidal''' on ''The Best Man''

->The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here...
-->--'''UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln''', "The Gettysburg Address" ([[{{Irony}} the most famous speech in American history]])

->I don't think there will be a woman prime minister in my lifetime.
-->--'''UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher''', 1973

->There will never be a revolution in Russia.
-->--'''Creator/AntonChekhov''', Letters of Anton Chekhov, Feb 9, 1888

->[[http://poorimpulsecontrol.net/blog/uploaded_images/hitlerprison-748470.jpg HITLER TAMED BY PRISON. Released on parole, he is expected to return to Austria]]
-->--''The New York Times'', 1924

->Hitler is now definitely cut off from power. He is even, if I may say so, cut off from the hope of coming to power.
-->--'''Léon Blum''', 1932

->Hitler's disappearance from the political scene is likely.
-->--'''Oreste Rosenfeld''', January 1, 1933

->Creator/DonaldTrump has been saying that he will run for President as a Republican, which is surprising since I just assumed he was running as a joke.
-->--'''Creator/SethMeyers''', in front of the future POTUS at the White House Correspondents' Dinner in 2011

-->--'''Series/RealTimeWithBillMaher''', 2015

!!Radio
->The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?
-->--A Western Union internal memo, 1876

!!Sports
->Huh. Another new game.
-->--'''Frank Mahan''', upon hearing of UsefulNotes/{{Basketball}}

->Poor build. Very skinny and narrow. Ended the '99 season weighing 195 pounds and still looks like a rail at 211. Looks a little frail and lacks great physical stature and strength. Can get pushed down more easily than you'd like. Lacks mobility and ability to avoid the rush. Lacks a really strong arm. Can't drive the ball down the field and does not throw a really tight spiral. System-type player who can get exposed if he must ad-lib and do things on his own.
-->--'''Creator/TomBrady's scouting report''' for the 2000 NFL Draft

->He possesses minimal football knowledge and lacks motivation.
-->--'''Early scouting report''' on NFL coach Vince Lombardi

->[Tom Tatham] had a fellow named Ted Keefer who worked for him, who was their advisor ... and Ted said "put that son of a bitch up" and said "I've seen him enough". This was another time and Pete Logan said ... "Mr. Keefer, the roses look mighty pretty around his neck." And Ted said, "the only time that son of a bitch'll have roses on him is when he's 6 feet under the ground." ... [Then they put him in the summer sale] at Keeneland, he was going to go for 10, 11, 12 thousand; I jumped in and started bidding, bought him back for 17. I took the ticket out to Tom behind the pavillion and said "Tom, I bought that Colt back for you, the Wishing Well colt 'cause he went too cheap" and he said "Arthur, we don't want him 'cause Ted doesn't like him" ... I stuck [the sales slip] in my shirt pocket and I remember thinking "Well, I guess I just blew another 17,000." I owed a lot of money at the time.
-->--'''Arthur Hancock III''' on Sunday Silence

!!Surface transportation
->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.
-->--'''UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte''' on the steamship

->My grandfather's reply was simple and final: "All nothing but nonsense. The railways are a mere fad, and will soon be done away with. Yes, within three years; and then we shall be entirely back to the horses and coaches again."
-->--'''Ernest Thompson-Seton'''

!!Television
->People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box all night.
-->--'''Darryl F. Zanuck''', President of 20th Century Fox, declining to invest in the television set

->TV will never be a serious competitor for radio because people must sit and keep their eyes glued on a screen; the average American family hasn't time for it.
-->--''The New York Times'', 1939

->We were driving through the Kent countryside, and my mum was reading the paper. She said "oooh, they're going to change Series/DoctorWho. It's going to be Creator/TomBaker next." And I remember being absolutely outraged. How dare they [[TheNthDoctor change the Doctor]]! How dare they turn Creator/JonPertwee into Tom Baker! He'll be rubbish!
-->--'''Creator/SophieAldred'''

->They said of casting Creator/DavidTennant as Casanova, "Damn, you should have cast [[HollywoodUgly someone sexier]]." With Creator/BenedictCumberbatch, we were told the same thing. "You promised us a sexy Sherlock, not ''[[HollywoodHomely him]]''."
-->--'''Creator/StevenMoffat'''

->I'm told there is a visitor for me, and it's Patrick Stewart, who I'd not seen in years. Patrick told me, "I'm doing a science fiction thing." I asked him what and he told me ''Franchise/StarTrek'' and I told him, "Oh no, not that hackneyed thing!" And he responded, [[MoneyDearBoy "Well, it will be a nice little pension for me."]]
-->--'''Creator/MalcolmMcDowell''' on Creator/PatrickStewart

->Overall reactions to this pilot were not very favorable. Interest in the show was very narrow.
-->--'''Creator/{{NBC}}''' [[http://www.thesmokinggun.com/file/friends-anniversary internal memo]] on ''{{Series/Friends}}''

->The final shot of the CSM walking amongst the alien artefacts that are tucked away at the Pentagon is a real appetite whetter. Imagine if this really was a standalone TV movie; the untapped potential would have been ''an extraordinary waste.''...There is something a little off about the chemistry between [[Creator/GillianAnderson Anderson]] and [[Creator/DavidDuchovny Duchovny]] at some points in the first episode – his performance screams of trying to enjoy this for as long as it lasts and hers occasionally tips into ''[='=][[ClassicallyTrainedExtra what am I doing here?]][='=]'' How little they both knew that this was going to change their lives.
-->--'''[[http://docohobigfinish.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/x-files-season-one.html Joe Ford]]''' on ''Series/TheXFiles'', "[[Recap/TheXFilesS01E01 Pilot]]"

->[TV comedy is] dead. Forever. Bury it.
-->--'''Lewis Erlicht''' passing on ''Series/TheCosbyShow'', 1984

->I can't see that face on a lunchbox.
-->--'''Brandon Tartikoff''' before reluctantly allowing Creator/MichaelJFox to be cast on ''Series/FamilyTies''

->I was given the script and the manga it was based on... But I thought, "[[Main/WhoWouldWantToWatchUs Who's going to watch this]]? It's a late night show on Creator/TVTokyo[[note]]Out of the major terrestrial networks in Japan, TV Tokyo is the smallest[[/note]] about a guy that eats food all by himself. There's no way audience will enjoy this." I expected this to be a laughing stock a few years later and wasn't something I wanted to tell people about.
-->--'''Yutaka Matsushige''', on his [[LongRunners long-runner]] TV Show, ''Series/KodokuNoGurume''

!!Telephony
->This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication.
-->-- Another Western Union internal memo, 1876

->The telephone is a curious device that might fairly find place in the magic of Arabian Tales. Of what use is such an invention?
-->--A newspaper reporter, 1876

->...it doesn't appeal to business customers because it doesn't have a keyboard, which makes it not a very good email machine.
-->--'''Steve Ballmer''', then-CEO of Microsoft, on the iPhone, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eywi0h_Y5_U 2007]]

!!Video Games
->No one buys a game specifically for multiplayer options.
-->--'''George Wood''', ''Series/GamingInTheClintonYears'' episode on ''VideoGame/{{GoldenEye|1997}}'', circa late 1990s

->[[StealthBasedGame Hiding from your enemies?]] That's not a game!
-->--Anecdotal response to Creator/HideoKojima's initial pitch for ''[[VideoGame/MetalGear1 Metal Gear]]''

->No one on ''Website/{{Youtube}}'' will watch tihs.
-->--'''paulinehtor''', a ''Website/{{Twitch}}'' user watching a speedrun attempt, immortalized by Summoning Salt's [[VideoGame/WiiSportsResort The History of Wii Sports Resort]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XkKufyIiAY Golf]]

->I was stupid enough to sell [[Creator/CdProjektRed them]] rights to the whole bunch. They offered me a percentage of their profits. I said, ‘No, there will be no profit at all — give me all my money right now! The whole amount.’ It was stupid. I was stupid enough to leave everything in their hands because I didn’t believe in their success. But who could foresee their success? I couldn’t.
-->--'''Creator/AndrzejSapkowski''' on his decision to sell the game rights to ''Franchise/TheWitcher''

!!Theatre
->No jokes, no tits, no chance!
-->--'''Michael Todd''' during the intermission of ''Away We Go'', later renamed ''Theatre/{{Oklahoma}}''

!!Weapons
->I consider machine guns an absurdity in a field army of normal composition.
-->--'''Mikhail Ivanovich Dragomirov'''

->That thing will never make a fighter.
-->--'''Ernst Udet''' on the Messerschmitt Bf 109

->Aero planes are interesting toys but of no military value.
-->--'''Ferdinand Foch''', 1910

!!Wrestling
->It was obvious that things weren't going to change for the mid-carders, and any of them able to get out of the promotion was doing just that. On June 30 [1999], Wrestling/ChrisJericho signed with the [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} WWF]]. In the six months prior to his contract signing, {{Wrestling/WCW}} had made very little effort to retain him... Many of the wrestlers in WCW were upset, because Jericho was well liked, and they couldn't believe the company wouldn't offer him a good deal while it was throwing money away on limos, Humvees, fired NBA stars and rappers. Instead, Chris Jericho, who had always been told that he was too small, couldn't sell tickets, and wasn't a ratings draw, made his debut later that summer in a confrontation with [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson The Rock]] and helped ''[[Wrestling/WWERaw Raw]]'' obliterate ''[[Wrestling/WCWMondayNitro Nitro]]'' in the ratings that evening by over four points.
-->--'''R. D. Reynolds''' and '''Bryan Alvarez''', ''Literature/TheDeathOfWCW''

->The next day, one of the guys asked for my impression of [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson Rocky]]. "Hey, he's a nice guy," I said, "but he just doesn't have it. The office should really cut their losses and get rid of the guy." I had no idea I was talking about the future People's and Corporate Champion.
-->--'''Mick Foley'''

-->--'''[[http://docohobigfinish.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/x-files-season-one.html Joe Ford]]''' on ''Series/TheXFiles'', "[[Recap/TheXFilesS1E1Pilot Pilot]]"

-->''Businessweek'', August 1968.

-->--Steve Ballmer, then-CEO of Microsoft, on the iPhone, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eywi0h_Y5_U 2007]]

!!Live-Action TV
->I was given the script and the manga it was based on... But I thought, "[[Main/WhoWouldWantToWatchUs Who's going to watch this]]? It's a late night show on Creator/TVTokyo[[note]]Out of the major terrestrial networks in Japan, TV Tokyo is the smallest[[/note]] about a guy that eats food all by himself. There's no way audience will enjoy this." I expected this to be a laughing stock a few years later and wasn't something I wanted to tell people about.
-->--'''Yutaka Matsushige''', on his [[LongRunners long-runner]] TV Show, ''Series/KodokuNoGurume''

->We were driving through the Kent countryside, and my mum was reading the paper. She said "oooh, they're going to change Doctor Who. It's going to be Creator/TomBaker next." And I remember being absolutely outraged. How dare they change the Doctor! How dare they turn Creator/JonPertwee into Tom Baker! He'll be rubbish!

-->--'''Yutaka Matsushige''', on his [[Main/LongRunners long-runner]] TV Show, ''Series/KodokuNoGurume''

->"Kid," he said, "someday there'll be 50 hotels here and it'll be [[LasVegas the entertainment capital of America]]." I thought to myself, "No wonder they call him [[KosherNostra Bugsy]]."

->''Chess'' casts you as king of a small country at war with a rival country of equivalent military power. There is little background story to speak of, and by and large the units in the game are utterly lacking any character whatsoever. The faceless, nondescript units are dubbed arbitrarily such labels as "Knight" and "Bishop" while their appearance reveals nothing to suggest these roles. To make matters worse, the units on both playable sides are entirely identical aside from a simple color palette swap.\\

-->--'''Anton Chekhov''', Letters of Anton Chekhov, Feb 9, 1888

-->--'''Ernest Seton-Thompson'''

->Boy, that ''Series/SixtyMinutes'' show will never last.
-->--'''Creator/MikeNelson''', during the ''Podcast/{{Rifftrax}}'' riff of ''Film/TheStarWarsHolidaySpecial''

->My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail. I don't know what that means, but it sounds like a dig.
-->--'''Creator/SteveBuscemi'''

->Interesting fact from Website/IMDb is that [[Series/KeepingUpWithTheKardashians Bruce Jenner]] turned down the role of {{Film/Superman}}. On behalf of everyone everywhere I say thank you Bruce because you suck. You may not suck as bad as the rest of the cast, but that is like saying you are [[DamnedByFaintPraise the least annoying character in a Rob Schneider movie.]] Guess what, you still suck.
-->--'''[[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Miles Antwiler]]''' [[http://moviemoses.wordpress.com/2010/02/11/can%E2%80%99t-stop-the-music-1980-nancy-walker/ on]] ''Film/CantStopTheMusic'' (1980)

->Amanda wasn’t just off with her assumption, she was way off. The first ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' film made nearly $773 million worldwide on a reported production budget of $232 million. [[Film/TheGuardiansOfTheGalaxy2 The sequel]] did even better, with $800 million in worldwide ticket sales. It was so successful, {{ThemePark/Disneyland}} remade The ''Twilight Zone Tower of Terror'' into a ''Guardians'' ride. In a twist of irony, Amanda says she turned down 2014’s ''Guardians'' because she thought it might be a mess that would bomb. And the very next year, Amanda appeared in ''Film/{{Pan}}'', a mess that bombed. It’s really too bad that some of [[Film/MeanGirls Karen Smith’s psychic powers]] didn’t rub off on Amanda, because I think we can all agree that finding green makeup in your butt crack is a very small price to pay for a chunk of ''Guardians'' profits.
-->--'''''[[https://dlisted.com/2020/12/08/amanda-seyfried-turned-down-a-role-in-guardians-of-the-galaxy-because-she-thought-it-would-flop/#more-386424 DListed]]''''', "Creator/AmandaSeyfried Turned Down A Role In ''Guardians Of The Galaxy'' Because She Thought It Would Flop"

-->John Seabrook, [[https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/10/hit-charade/403192/?single_page=true writing for]] the ''New Yorker'', 2015

->'''Lt. Tom Paris:''' So which vid are we watching this time? I vote for ''Film/TheAdventuresOfCaptainProton''.\\
'''Ens. Hyun Kim:''' How about that new space opera series? ''[[Franchise/StarTrek A Trek Through the Stars]].''\\
'''Lt. Paris:''' Come off it, Hyun! That show will never last.
-->--''Fanfic/RocketshipVoyager''

->I feel the taste may be a little strong for the British pallet. It's unlikely to find many fans over here.

-->A likely apocryphal remark by an American automotive journalist reporting on the Citroen 2CV's debut at the 1948 Paris Motor Show.

->I'm sorry... but really? This is really what you think the iPad will cause? What we have now with this tablet craze is a trend, like Pogs. (...) I don't know how anyone can possibly think that the iPad will be some sort of paradigm shift.
-->-- '''moocat''' commenting on [[http://gizmodo.com/5506692/ipad-is-the-future this]] Gizmodo article about the iPad being the future.

->"I’m going to go out on a limb and say that there is no way that a [[{{Music/BTS}} K-pop boy group]] will make it big in the States."
-->John Seabrook, [[https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/10/hit-charade/403192/?single_page=true writing for]] the ''New Yorker''

->'''Fozzie Bear:''' Hey dare! Want a lift?\\

-->--'''Michael Eisner''', about Creator/JohnnyDepp's performance, when watching a preview of ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl''

->"I’m going to go out on a limb and say that there is no way that a [[Music/BTS K-pop boy group]] will make it big in the States."

->Why should I [run for president]? I already have a wonderful life.
-->--'''Donald Trump''', 2012

->Well-informed people know that it is impossible to transmit the human voice over wires as may be done with dots and dashes of Morse code, and that, were it possible to do so, the thing would be of no practical value.
-->--Unidentified Boston newspaper, 1865

->Fans, don't even think about changing the channel, because we've learned that at our competition, Wrestling/MickFoley, who used to wrestle here as Cactus Jack, is going to win their world title! Heh, that'll put butts in the seats.
-->--'''Wrestling/TonySchiavone''' announcing ''Wrestling/WCWMondayNitro'', January 4th, 1999[[note]]right before around 600,000 homes switched to watch Mankind win the [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} WWF]] Title. Oops.[[/note]]

-->-- ''Fanfic/RocketshipVoyager''

-->-- '''Music/JamesTaylor''', [[Music/DireStraits Mark Knopfler]]'s "Sailing to Philadelphia"

-->-- ''Series/OnlyMurdersInTheBuilding''

-->-- A satirical [[https://www.strategypage.com/humor/articles/20010731.asp 'review' of chess]]

-->--'''Tony Schiavone''' announcing ''Wrestling/WCWMondayNitro'', January 4th, 1999[[note]]right before around 600,000 homes switched to watch Mankind win the [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} WWF]] Title. Oops.[[/note]]

->'''LT Tom Paris:''' So which vid are we watching this time? I vote for ''The Adventures of Captain Proton''.\\
'''ENS Hyun Kim:''' How about that new space opera series? ''[[Franchise/StarTrek A Trek Through the Stars]].''\\
'''LT Paris:''' Come off it, Hyun! That show will never last.
-->--''Fanfic/RocketshipVoyager''