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Browsing Posts published in April, 2008

This is such a great quote:

First They Ignore You…
Then They Laugh At You…
Then They Fight You…
Then You Win.

Mohandas Gandhi

Isn’t this such a great quote! Anyway, along with this, here are is a collection of quotes that we now consider ridiculous:

  1. The telephone has too many shortcomings to be serious considered as a means of communication.
    [Western Union 1876]
  2. Everything that can be invented has been invented.
    [U.S. Patent Commissioner, 1899]
  3. The phonograph has no commercial value at all.
    [Thomas Edison 1881]
  4. The radio craze will die out in time.
    [Thomas Edison 1922]
  5. The automobile has practically reached the limit of its development.
    [Scientific America 1909]
  6. Man will not fly for fifty years.
    [Orville Wright 1901]
  7. A rocket will never leave the Earth’s atmosphere.
    [New York Times 1936]
  8. There is a world market for maybe five computers.
    [IBM's Thomas Watson 1943]

This post’s contents were actually all taken from this commercial :-)

Gosh, this commercial is at least 5 years old. I’ve actually never seen it on TV, only online. Unfortunately the company didn’t maintain an active link to it, but thanks to YouTube, it has resurfaced.

Never the less, this was one of my favorite commercials. It is really nice and really moving. …. just imagine if all of these experts were talking to you (well, with today’s technology they kinda are)

As an added bonus, here is another one with Mohammad Ali

Well, besides easy vector graphics, you can have something like this in one “image” file.

Note: the file might take a little while to load the images in the black boxes from flickr.