Title: INTERNET SCOUTING
Author: Michael F. Bowman
Company: Attorney at Law

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QUOTES WORTH
REMEMBERING

 From McCants_Alan@hq.navsea.navy.mil  Fri Nov 17 15:40:42 1995
Subject: Re[4]: Winners & Losers
To: "Michael F. Bowman" <mfbowman@CapAccess.org>

    My Pleasure !!

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QUOTES FROM LOSERS
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"No one can deny that [Russia] has made great economic 
progress."
    Lester Thoreau
    Professor of Economics
    MIT 1989

"The Soviet economy has made great national progress in recent 
years."
    John Kenneth Gailbreathe
    Harvard
    New Yorker Magazine 1984

"It is a vulgar mistake to think that most people in Eastern Europe 
are miserable."
    Paul Samuelson
    Nobel Laureate
    Professor of Economics
    MIT Mid 80's

"Crack will kill you quickly
That's why it has to go
They'll get more of your money
If they kill you nice and slow."

     
 Originally titled:  "And they said it couldn't be done" 
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 "Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."
      --Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of
 science, 1949
     
 "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
      --Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
     
 "I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked 
 with the  best people, and I can assure you that data processing is 
 a fad that won't last out the year."
      --The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall,
 1957
     
 "But what ... is it good for?"
      --Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM,
 1968, commenting on the microchip.
     
 "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
      --Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital
 Equipment Corp.,  1977
     
 "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.
     
 "The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value.   Who 
 would pay  for a message sent to nobody in particular?"
      --David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for
 investment in  the radio in the 1920s.
     
 "The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn 
 better   than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible."
      --A Yale University management professor in response to Fred
 Smith's paper  proposing reliable overnight delivery service. 
 (Smith went on to found  Federal Express Corp.)
     
 "Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?"
      --H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.
     
  "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."
     
 "A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports 
 say  America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like 
 you make."
      --Response to Debbi Fields' idea of starting Mrs. Fields'
 Cookies.
     
 "We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out."
      --Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.
     
 "Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible."
      --Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.
     
 "If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. 
 The  literature was full of examples that said you can't do this."
      --Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives
 for 3-M "Post-It" Notepads.
     
 "So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, 
 even  built with some of your parts, and what do you think about 
 funding us? Or we' ll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay 
 our  salary, we'll come work  for you.'  And they said, 'No.' So 
 then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they  said, 'Hey, we don't 
 need you. You  haven't got through college yet.'"
      --Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get
 Atari and H-P  interested in his and Steve Wozniak's personal 
 computer.
     
 "Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and 
 reaction  and the need to have something better than a vacuum 
 against which to react.   He seems to lack the basic knowledge 
 ladled out daily in high schools."
      --1921 New York Times editorial about Robert Goddard's
 revolutionary rocket  work.
     
 "You want to have consistent and uniform muscle development across 
 all of  your muscles? It can't be done. It's just a fact of life. 
 You just  have to  accept inconsistent muscle development as an 
 unalterable condition of weight  training."
      --Response to Arthur Jones, who solved the "unsolvable"
 problem by  inventing Nautilus.
     
 "Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? 
 You're  crazy."
      --Drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project
 to drill for  oil in 1859.
     
 "Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau."
      --Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University,
 1929.
     
 "Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value."
      --Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole
 Superieure de  Guerre.
     
 "Everything that can be invented has been invented."
      --Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents,
 1899.
     
 "Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction".
       --Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872
     
 "The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from 
 the   intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon".
      --Sir John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon, appointed Surgeon-
 Extraordinary  to Queen Victoria 1873.
     
 "640K ought to be enough for anybody."
      -- Bill Gates, 1981

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QUOTES FROM WINNERS
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"The years ahead will be great ones for our country, for the 
cause of freedom and for the spread of civilization.  The 
west will not contain communism; it will transcend communism. 
We will not bother to denounce it, we'll dismiss it as a sad, 
bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages are even 
now being written. "
    President Ronald Reagan
    University of Norte Dame
    Commencement Address
    May 1981
     
Glen Tilton, President, Texaco Refining:
"We don't think it's coincidental that the first year we got back into Indy 
car racing we displaced
Valvoline as the number 3 marketer of motor oil in the U.S."
     
Carl Sandburg:
"Everything of value was once a dream."
     
Steve Ericson:
"Aviation products: you can get better, but you can't pay more for it."
     
Tee Shirt:
"The will to win is important.
The will to prepare is vital"
     
anon:
"You can never be too rich, too thin, or do too much research"
     
Yoda:
"Do or Do Not, there is no try."
     
Winston Churchill:
"Never, never, never quit."
     
"I'll be back" --Schwarzenegger
"I'll be back, and eventually I'll be in front" -- Bill Berle (race #81)
     
anon:(isn't he prolific?)
"Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who do 
not."
     
Tom Peters:
"Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do 
more of what works. If it
works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is 
in the doing something else. "
     
Nemesis (Formula I Air Race Team)
"Extraordinary Performance Does Not Come From Ordinary Ideas"
     
Guy Kawasaki How to Drive Your Competition Crazy:
"In its purest form, winning becomes a means, not an end, to improve 
yourself
and your
competition. In order to improve the world, companies have a moral 
obligation
to play to win and force
everyone to play at their highest level.
     
Winning is also a means to play again. The unexamined life may not be worth 
living, but the unlived life is
not worth examining. The rewards of winning-money, power, satisfaction, and 
self-confidence-should
not be squandered.
     
Finally, in addition to playing to win, you have a second, more important 
obligation: To compete again to
the depth and breadth and height that your soul can reach. Ultimately, your 
greatest competition is
yourself. "
     
Earnest Hemingway:
"Motor Racing, Mountain Climbing and Bull Fighting are the only true sports. 
All the rest are children
games played by adults."
     
Douglas Adams:
" 'I could have done that!' you say. But you didn't, and that makes all the 
difference."
     
Ben Franklin:
"Those who would sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither."
     
Roscoe Turner:
"There is no excuse for an airplane that isn't fast."
     
J. L. Picard, quoting a fictional judge, The Drumhead:
"With the first link, a chain is forged. The first speech censured, the 
first
thought forbidden, the first
freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
     
Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live 
in the real world."
     
Arthur Conan Doyle:
"Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly 
recognizes
genius."
     
Petronius
"We trained hard... but every time we were beginning to form up into teams, 
we would be reorganized. I
was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by 
reorganizing... and a wonderful
method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing 
ineffiency and demoralization." (AD
66)
     
Edward Simmons
"The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right 
and
doing a thing exactly right. "
     
Earnest Hemingway
"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a 
crime. "
     
Bill Meade
"Measurements are imperfect. Ignorance even more so. "