False judgements and mistakes in history

False judgements and mistakes in history

We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
(Plattenfirma) - 1962, to The Beatles
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There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.
Steve Ballmer (Microsoft CEO) - 04/2007, 2 months before first iPhone is released
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The coming of the wireless era will make war impossible, because it will make war ridiculous.
Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937)
I can literally say antisemitic shit and they can't drop me. Now what?
Kanye West - October 2022, 9 days before being dropped by Adidas
No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.
The accident is well under control.
After 40 years one shouldn't lie to the people about the chances of a German reunion. There are none.
Gerhard Schröder - June 12th 1989
I find it a bit sad that there is no photo of me hanging on the walls in the Berlin Museum at Check-Point Charlie.
640 kB ought to be enough for anybody.
1981

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I know it's true
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And if you go away
I know you could never stay
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I know it's true
It's all because of you
And if I make it through
It's all because of you

And now and then
If we must start again
Well, we will know for sure
That I love you
The Beatles - Now and Then
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It's been a long, cold, lonely winter
Little darling
It feels like years since it's been here

Here comes the sun
Here comes the sun
And I say, "It's alright"
The Beatles - Here Comes the Sun, Album: Abbey Road
The guitar was my weapon, my shield to hide behind.
Let me explain something about guitar playing. Everyone's got their own character, and that's the thing that's amazed me about guitar playing since the day I first picked it up. Everyone's approach to what can come out of six strings is different from another person, but it's all valid.
I can tell you first-hand from my experiences with Sacramento, the league does try to honor the fan bases it has, and encourage teams to stay in their home markets.
We've truly reimagined windows.
Steve Ballmer (Microsoft CEO) - 25.10.2012, about Windows 8
You're like the iPhone 5 of German TV hosts. Thin, light and unnecessarily tall.
Klaas Heufer-Umlauf in Joko & Klaas - neoParadise vom 13.09.2012
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We live in a world where losing your iPhone is more dramatic than losing your virginity.
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Every day sees humanity more victorious in the struggle with space and time.
I am proud to be a Christian. I believe not only as a Christian, but as a scientist as well. A wireless device can deliver a message through the wilderness. In prayer the human spirit can send invisible waves to eternity, waves that achieve their goal in front of God.
Oh, great warrior? Wars not make one great.
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I don't want to be in a battle, but waiting on the edge of one I can't escape is even worse.
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Don't care what you say, nothin' on me
I don't care 'bout the lawyer fees
I don't care 'bout your loyalties
God will solve it all for me
Kanye West - God Breathed, Album: Donda
I was up for sale, but I couldn't tell
God made it rain, the devil made it hail
Dropped out of school, but I'm that one at Yale
Made the best tracks and still went off the rail
Kanye West - Hurricane, Album: Donda
Put on your Adidas and step off.
I love to shop, especially in retro stores. I have about a million pairs of old-school sports shoes like Adidas, so that's probably my biggest vice.
The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.
What one man can do himself directly is but little. If however he can stir up ten others to take up the task he has accomplished much.
The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in their grueling travels across trackless lands in prehistoric times, looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space, at full speed, above all obstacles, on the infinite highway of the air.
The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.
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It is only when you fall that you learn whether you can fly.
Flemeth in Dragon Age
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That went surprisingly well. You came off like a naive idiot - and naive idiots are not a threat.
The truth is always there, whether we see it or not - whether we choose to or not. The truth doesn't care about our needs or wants. It doesn't care about our governments, our ideologies, our religions.
Valery Legasov in Chernobyl - Episode 5
To be a scientist is to be naive.
Valery Legasov in Chernobyl - Episode 5
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The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
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The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparallel catastrophe.
2
If you mean when will Chernobyl be completly save - the half-life of Plutonium 239 is 24,000 years. Perhaps we should just say, "not in our lifetimes."
Valery Legasov in Chernobyl - Episode 3
It can be done this way, or that way. I prefer this way.
Gerhard Schröder - 2003, about the tax reform
In Germany, success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan.
Gerhard Schröder - about Germany dropping out of the EURO 2000
My aim remains, if history approves, to unite our country.
Berlin will live and the Wall will fall!
Willy Brandt - 10. November 1989
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When the truth offends me, we lie and we lie until we can no longer remember it is even there. Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid.
Valery Legasov in Chernobyl - Episode 5

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