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- I can see the time when every city will have one.
- An American mayor's reaction to the news of the invention of the telephone
- No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris ... [because] no known motor can run at the requisite speed for four days without stopping.
- Orville Wright
- Inventions reached their limit long ago, and I see no hope for further development.
- Julius Frontinus, 1st century A.D.
- There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
- Ken Olsen (1926 - ), CEO DEC 1977
- It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.
- John Von Neumann (ca. 1949)
- After several minutes of utterly dull conversation I began to think of her not as a woman but as a human, then not as a human but as an animal, then not as an animal but as a source of high-grade protein.
- Mark Gooley
- The friendly cow all red and white,
I love with all my heart:
She gives me cream with all her might;
to eat with apple tart. - Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
- The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands.
- Alexander Penney
- When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
- Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)
- Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anais Nin (1903 - 1977)
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