"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.
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"Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau."
-- Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics,
Yale University, 1929.
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"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value."
-- Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of
Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre.
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-- Charles H. Duell,
Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.