“It was the first, and certainly the last expedition in this useless place” - Lieutenant Joseph Ives, after an expedition to the Great Grand Canyon in 1861
“HIV – Not Cause AIDS” - Peter Dyursberg, at that time one of the world’s most respected microbiologists, 1988
“People will never build a bigger plane” - Boeing Company engineer after flying a Boeing 247, which could accommodate 10 passengers.
“You’d better be a secretary or marry than to do it” - theatrical agent, 1944, to Marilyn Monroe
“We do not like their sound, and this guitar has long been out of fashion” - Decca Recording Company, 1962, rejecting the Beatles
“The phone has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication” - Western Union, 1876
“I think there is a world market for perhaps five computers” - Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
“Television will not survive long, because people quickly get tired of looking at one point” - Lee de Forest, American radio pioneer, in 1957
“I see no reason for anyone to want to have in their home a personal computer” - Ken Olson 1977, president and founder of Digital Equipment
“If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000” - Paul Ehrlich, scientist
“As University of California physicist John Holdren has said, it is possible that carbon-dioxide climate-induced famines could kill as many as a billion people before the year 2020” - Paul Ehrlich again
“We have at most ten years - not ten years to decide upon action, but ten years to alter fundamentally the trajectory of global greenhouse emissions” - James Hansen, environmentalist. Or possibly “mentalist”
“The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s the world will undergo famines - hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now” - yep, you guessed it, Paul Ehrlich – as late as 1968
“There is no such thing as other people's children” - Hillary Clinton
“If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done” - Peter Ustinov. Actually, that's not so stupid, is it?
"An oral contract isn't worth the paper it's written on" – movie mogul Sam Goldwyn
"I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong" – Sam Goldwyn
Sam Goldwyn again, when asked by a secretary if she should destroy files that were more than ten years old: "Yes, but keep copies"
“It's right for God to slaughter women and children any time He pleases. God gives life and He takes life. And everything He does is just and right and good” - American evangelist John Piper
“In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better” - anonymous
“If vegetarians love animals so much, why do they eat all their food?” - anonymous
“You only have to mumble a few words in church to be married, and a few in your sleep to get a divorce” - anonymous
“I consider that gay marriage is one thing that ought to be involving a gentleman and a woman” - Arnold Schwarzenegger
“Politics gives guys much energy they usually behave badly approximately adult females. And I hope I never get into that” - Bill Clinton
“It just isn’t pollution that is hurting the setting, it truly is the impurities in our air and H2O that happen to be doing it” - Dan Quayle
"When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal" — Richard Nixon
"I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix" — Dan Quayle
“If we do not do well, we run the potential risk of failure” - Dan Quayle
“We are not with no accomplishment. We now have managed to distribute poverty equally” - Nguyen Co Thatch, Vietnamese foreign minister
“I cannot inform you how grateful I am - I’m filled with humidity” - American politician Gib Lewis
“Fiction composing is excellent, you’ll be able to make up nearly anything” - Ivana Trump on finishing her first novel
“I tend not to like this term 'bomb'. It is not a bomb. It is actually a machine that is exploding” - Jacques le Blanc, French ambassador on nuclear weapons
“Traditionally, a majority of Australia’s imports occur from overseas” - Australian cabinet minister Keppel Enderbery
“Sure there happen to be accidents and deaths in boxing – but none of them critical” - Alan Minter, boxer
“My sister’s expecting a infant, and I never know if I am gonna be an uncle or an aunt” - Chuck Nevitt, basketball player
“The medical practitioners X-rayed my head and located nothing at all” - Dizzy Dean, baseball player
“Our strength is the fact we do not have any weaknesses. Our weakness is the fact we do not have any real strengths” – American football coach
“I’ll fight Lloyd Honeyghan for nothing at all, if your price is right” – boxer Marlon Starling
“We now have the exact same circumstance as we had with the get started of the race, only specifically the opposite” – Murray Walker, sports journalist
“I might be dumb, but I am not stupid” - Terry Bradshaw, footballer
“I consider the movie Clueless was very deep. I believe it was deep while in the way that it was very light. I believe lightness has to occur from a very deep position if it truly is accurate lightness” - Alicia Silverstone
“If it weren’t for electrical power we would all be viewing TV by candlelight” – George Gobel, actor and comedian
“So, where’s the Cannes Movie Festival being held this 12 months?” - Christina Aguilera
“It’s not accurate that I had nothing at all on. I had the radio on” – Marilyn Monroe
“They misunderestimated me” - George Bush
“I just want you to understand that when we talk about war, we’re truly discussing peace” - George Bush
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