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Stuff That Made Sense At The Time
Stupidity
Physics Section
How many times have you been just
talking, and worked out something weird that actually makes perfect sense? This
page is a collection of such thoughts.
If everyone had a job, would they sack the Job Centre staff? Where would they go to get a job?
The Milkybar Kid is just like a drug dealer, he gives out one free sample to all the other kids, and stands to make a profit when they get hooked.
You are only me to you.
Think about the phrase 'go down like a lead balloon'. A lead balloon would go down very well.
Nobody is actually responsible for their own actions. There are two reasons
everyone is the way they are:
1) Genes they
inherited
-Not their fault
2) Influences from other people -Not their fault
Therefore, anything anyone ever does is caused by other people!
"Just because I'm not Jon, it doesn't mean that Jon isn't me" - a friend of mine, trying to break my brain.
Free websites are designed to make fun of venture capitalists :- Site A gets it's funding from banner ads to site B, which is funded by linking to site C, and site C only makes money from it's paid links to sites like A. Example: My V3-URL is paid for by adverts for FortuneCity. FortuneCity is paid for by adverts...
"What's the Christian form of worshipping God?" - A dense friend of mine. (Prayer for all those wondering)
"How many grams in a centimetre?" - the same person again!
"Could you be reincarnated as a computer?" - and AGAIN!
"Fleas have no conciousness" - him yet again, stating something he can't possibly know.
"640k should be enough for anybody" - Bill Gates, 1981
"I think there is a world market for about five computers" -Thomas J Watson, Chairman of the IBM Board, 1943
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." - Ken Olson, founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" - H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.
"Television is a flash in the pan. It will not last" - some head of radio person (help! who said this??)
"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." - Popular Mechanics, 1949
"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.
"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 (founder of Federal Express) paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service.
"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."
"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
"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.
"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.
Physicists making up new theories are coming out with anything they think others will swallow, just to keep their jobs. There is no other explanation for their theories. Except perhaps that they're smackheads.
Time dilation is caused by you not being able to read your watch properly when you're moving so fast.
Physics Is Buddhism:
In Buddhism, the concept of chi states that for every bad event, there is
another good event to cancel it out. Newton's second law states for every
action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Also, the overall energy of
the universe is zero, and overall good chi and bad chi cancel each other out.
Everything is made of quarks. There are up, down, top, bottom, strange and charm quarks (sorry, this one's true)
If you have any favourite examples of illogical nonsense, please tell me about them
Thanks to Stuart Hennigan for Physics Is Buddhism
Thanks To Rhodri for Time Dilation.
