[jerrys]

"Who wants to hear actors talk?"
---H.M.Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927

"I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper."
---Gary Cooper, on his decision not to take the leading role in 'Gone With The Wind'

"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out."
---Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962

"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible."
---Lord Kelvin, president of the Royal Society, 1895

"Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction."
---Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872

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

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

"Airplanes are interesting toys, but they have no military value."
---Marshall Ferdinand Foch, 1911

"Whatever happens, the U.S. Navy is not going to be caught napping."
---Frank Knox, U.S. Secretary of the Navy, December 4, 1941

"Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau."
---Economist Irving Fisher, October 16, 1929

"Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the
lowest crime rates in the country."
Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, DC

"I haven't committed a crime. What I did
was fail to comply with the law."
David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering
accusations that he failed to pay his taxes.