"That Won't Work!"

Have you ever heard someone in your club or district say, "That won't work" or "That's a bad idea"? Consider the following:

"Well informed people know it is impossible to transmit the voice over wires and that were it possible to do so, the thing would be of no practical value."
--- Editorial in the Boston Post, 1865

"While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially, I consider it an impossibility, a development of which we need waste little time dreaming."
--- Lee DeForest, quoted in the New York Times, 1926

"Everything that can be invented has been invented."
--- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U. S. Office of Patents, 1899

"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home."
--- Ken Olsen, President of Digital Equipment Corporation, at the Convention of the World Future Society, 1977

"The ordinary 'horseless carriage' is at present a luxury for the wealthy; and although its price will probably fall in the future, it will never, of course, come into as common use as the bicycle."
--- The Literary Digest, October 14, 1899

"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.”


With thanks to RC Grants Pass, D5110