Predictions For The New Year Are Coming Soon

Are you sick and tired of all those predictions people make at the start of the new year? No need to worry, most of them probably won't come true.

If you are tempted to make predictions about the future, you might want to keep them to yourself.

History has a way of easily making you look foolish.

Here are a few stupid quotes from the past:

• “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

• “Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?”
  --H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.

• “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.

• “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

• “The bomb will never go off. I speak as an expert in explosives.”
  --Admiral William Leahy, US Atomic Bomb Project.

• “Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.”
  --Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929.

• “Louis Pastueur’s theory of germs is ridiculous fiction.”
  --Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872

• “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.”