“I was ordered to take a height, which I did, under the most withering fire I have ever known…” – General George Pickett
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“You’re looking for a fight and now you can have it.” – Wyatt Earp, to the Clantons and the Mclaurys
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"Not of any commercial value." - Thomas Edison, on the phonograph (1880)
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"Stocks have reached what looks like a permanent high plateau." - Irving Fisher, proferssor of Economics, Yale University (1929)
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"A severe depression like that of 1920-21 is outside the range of probability." - The Harvard Economic Society (1929)
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"[There is] a world market for maybe five computers at most." - Thomas J Watson, chairman of IBM (1943)
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"Computers in the future may have only 1000 vacuum tubes and weigh no more than 1.5 tons." - Popular Mechanics Magazine (1949)
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