“I’ll never lose weight” - me, 2019

• “We Are Probably Nearing the Limit of all We can Know about Astronomy” - Simon Newcomb in 1888

• “The More Important Fundamental Laws and Facts about Physical Sciences Have All Been Discovered” - Albert A. Michelson, 1894

• “Physics as we know it, it will be over in 6 months”, Max Born, 1927

• “There is a 50% chance that we would find a complete unified theory of everything by the end of the century” - Stephen Hawking, 1980

• “Man will not fly for 50 years” - Wilbur Write 1901, 2 years before he and his brother flew

• no plane will fly from NY To Paris - orewell write 1908

• “Landing and walking on the moon has so many problems that it will take man 200 years to do it” - scientific digest , 1948

• “Man will never reach the moon no matter scientific advances” - radio pioneer lee de forest, 1957, 9 months before Sputnik

• A manned lunar base will be in existence by 1986, The Futurist, 1967

• Before 2000 the first child will be born on the moon, Walter Avon Braun, designer of the Saturn 5 rocket

• “There will never be a ‘Newton’ for a blade of grass” In 1790, Immanuel Kant

1876: “This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication.” — William Orton, President of Western Union.

1889: “Fooling around with alternating current (AC) is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever.” — Thomas Edison

1903: “The horse is here to stay but the automobile is only a novelty – a fad.” — President of the Michigan Savings Bank advising Henry Ford’s lawyer, Horace Rackham, not to invest in the Ford Motor Company

1921: “The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to no one in particular?”

1946: “Television won’t be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.” — Darryl Zanuck, 20th Century Fox.

1955: “Nuclear powered vacuum cleaners will probably be a reality within 10 years.” — Alex Lewyt, President of the Lewyt Vacuum Cleaner Company.

1959: “Before man reaches the moon, your mail will be delivered within hours from New York to Australia by guided missiles. We stand on the threshold of rocket mail.” — Arthur Summerfield, U.S. Postmaster General.

1961: “There is practically no chance communications space satellites will be used to provide better telephone, telegraph, television or radio service inside the United States.” — T.A.M. Craven, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) commissioner.

1966: “Remote shopping, while entirely feasible, will flop.” — Time Magazine.

1981: “Cellular phones will absolutely not replace local wire systems.” — Marty Cooper, inventor.

1995: “I predict the Internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse.” — Robert Metcalfe, founder of 3Com.

2005: “There’s just not that many videos I want to watch.” — Steve Chen, CTO and co-founder of YouTube expressing concerns about his company’s long term viability.

2006: “Everyone’s always asking me when Apple will come out with a cell phone. My answer is, ‘Probably never.’” — David Pogue, The New York Times.

2007: “There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share.” — Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO.

“Radio has no future” - Lord Kelvin

“heavier than air flying machines are impossible” - Lord Kelvin

“Xrays will prove to be a hoax” - Lord Kelvin

“Evolution is not possible because the sun is too young” - Lord Kelvin

“Physics as we know it will be over in 6 months” - Max Borne 1920s

P. Krugman 1998, “The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in ‘Metcalfe’s law' becomes apparent: most people have nothing to say to each other! By 2005, it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine’s”

“We shall never be able to study by any method the chemical composition of stars” - Augusto Comte 1835

(If you’re wondering where this is all from, it’s a list I’ve been compiling for years in my iPhones Notes every time I hear a “bad prediction” quote like this because I like them so much. It just occurred to me today to add myself to the top about my weight loss 😀)

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