Author Topic: Don't Always Trust the Experts  (Read 887 times)

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 - mid to late 2014,  'Market Peg Expert' Agent86 - "Market pegged assets will not work! "- We/BTS(X at the time) should swiftly change to feed priced assets! FPA;

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Here are some memorable misses from notable authorities of their time. Thought you all might enjoy seeing these.

    This telephone has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a practical form of communication. – Western Union internal memo, 1878.

    Radio has no future. - Lord Kelvin, British mathematician and physicist, 1897.

    [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, head of 20th Century Fox, 1946.

    Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia. - Dr. Dionysus Lardner, Professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy at University College, London, 1823.

    Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value. - Marshall Ferdinand Foch, French military strategist, 1911.

    There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home. Kenneth Olsen, president and founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977.