Stupid Quotes - gaffes, blunders and embarrassing words
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - the ones we don't know we don't know.
Donald Rumsfeld - This comment before the war in Iraq won the US Secretary of Defence the 2003 Award for Gobbledygook from the Plain English Campaign.
Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.
Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, October 16, 1929.
Whatever happens, the U.S. Navy is not going to be caught napping.
Frank Knox, U.S. Secretary of the Navy, on December 4, 1941.
Airplanes are interesting toys, but they have no military value.
Marshal Ferdinand Foch in 1911.
We don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.
Hewlett-Packard's rejection of Steve Jobs, who went on to found Apple Computers.
I stand by all the misstatements that I've made.
Dan Quayle
Rural Americans are real Americans. There's no doubt about that. You can't always be sure with other Americans. Not all of them are real.
Dan Quayle
The future will be better tomorrow.
Dan Quayle
It doesn't matter what he does, he will never amount to anything.
Albert Einstein's teacher to his father, 1895.
We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
H. M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.
With over 50 foreign cars already on sale here, the Japanese auto industry isn't likely to carve out a big slice of the U.S. market.
Business Week, 1958.
This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.
Western Union internal memo, 1876.
It will be years - not in my time - before a woman will become Prime Minister.
Margaret Thatcher, 1974.
Theoretically, television may be feasible, but I consider it an impossibility--a development which we should waste little time dreaming about.
Lee de Forest, 1926, inventor of the cathode ray tube.
Radio has no future.
Lord Kelvin, Victorian physicist and President of the Royal Society, c. 1897.
We have a saying in Iran: "The dogs bark but the caravan continues." People can bark and it will not bother us. Why should it.
The Shah of Iran, in 1979.
640K ought to be enough for anybody.
Bill Gates, 1981.
My fellow Ameicans I'm pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.
Ronald Reagan, said by the US President during a microphone test in 1984.
We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes.
Leona Helmsley, the US businesswoman dubbed "the Queen of Mean." She was sentenced in 1992 to four years in prison and fined $7.1m for tax evasion.
People can have the Model T in any color...so long as it's black.
Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company. Thge company was forced to move with the times, introducing a choice of colors in 1925.
All homosexuals should be castrated.
Evangelist Billy Graham, a statement for which he later apologized.
If you stay here much longer, you'll all be slitty-eyed.
Prince Philip, husband of Britain's Queen Elizabeth, to British students in China during a 1986 state visit.
I get to go to a lot of famous places, like Canada.
Britney Spears, on the good parts of being famous.
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - the ones we don't know we don't know.
Donald Rumsfeld - This comment before the war in Iraq won the US Secretary of Defence the 2003 Award for Gobbledygook from the Plain English Campaign.
Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.
Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, October 16, 1929.
Whatever happens, the U.S. Navy is not going to be caught napping.
Frank Knox, U.S. Secretary of the Navy, on December 4, 1941.
Airplanes are interesting toys, but they have no military value.
Marshal Ferdinand Foch in 1911.
We don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.
Hewlett-Packard's rejection of Steve Jobs, who went on to found Apple Computers.
I stand by all the misstatements that I've made.
Dan Quayle
Rural Americans are real Americans. There's no doubt about that. You can't always be sure with other Americans. Not all of them are real.
Dan Quayle
The future will be better tomorrow.
Dan Quayle
It doesn't matter what he does, he will never amount to anything.
Albert Einstein's teacher to his father, 1895.
We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
H. M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.
With over 50 foreign cars already on sale here, the Japanese auto industry isn't likely to carve out a big slice of the U.S. market.
Business Week, 1958.
This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.
Western Union internal memo, 1876.
It will be years - not in my time - before a woman will become Prime Minister.
Margaret Thatcher, 1974.
Theoretically, television may be feasible, but I consider it an impossibility--a development which we should waste little time dreaming about.
Lee de Forest, 1926, inventor of the cathode ray tube.
Radio has no future.
Lord Kelvin, Victorian physicist and President of the Royal Society, c. 1897.
We have a saying in Iran: "The dogs bark but the caravan continues." People can bark and it will not bother us. Why should it.
The Shah of Iran, in 1979.
640K ought to be enough for anybody.
Bill Gates, 1981.
My fellow Ameicans I'm pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.
Ronald Reagan, said by the US President during a microphone test in 1984.
We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes.
Leona Helmsley, the US businesswoman dubbed "the Queen of Mean." She was sentenced in 1992 to four years in prison and fined $7.1m for tax evasion.
People can have the Model T in any color...so long as it's black.
Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company. Thge company was forced to move with the times, introducing a choice of colors in 1925.
All homosexuals should be castrated.
Evangelist Billy Graham, a statement for which he later apologized.
If you stay here much longer, you'll all be slitty-eyed.
Prince Philip, husband of Britain's Queen Elizabeth, to British students in China during a 1986 state visit.
I get to go to a lot of famous places, like Canada.
Britney Spears, on the good parts of being famous.
