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Failure and Mistake
Elbert Hubbard
What They Said About the Gettysburg Address
Ted Turner: In Defense of North Korean Dictator Kim Jong Il
Turkish proverb: No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back. Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962: "We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." Anonymous: "A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame others." Bill Cosby: "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." Milton Friedman: "If you make a mistake and refuse to admit it, you hurt yourself twice: once, when you make the mistake; a second time, when you refuse to learn from your mistake." Robert F. Kennedy: "Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." John Wesley Powell: "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." Franklin D. Roosevelt: "Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something." Beverly Sills: "You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try." Nadine Stair: "If I had to live my life over again, I'd dare to make more mistakes next time. Oscar Wilde: "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." Frank Lloyd Wright: "A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines." Thomas Henry Huxley: “There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.” Henry Ford: “One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.” W. Somerset Maugham: "The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel." F.A. Hayek: "Human reason can neither predict nor deliberately shape its own future. Its advances consist in finding out where it has been wrong." Julius Sextus Frontinus, Roman engineer, 1st century AD: "Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development." Western Union internal memo (1876): "This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse (1872): "Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction." Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM (1943): "I think there's a world market for maybe five computers." Popular Mechanics, March 1949: "Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1 1/2 tons."
potatoes are of the devil!
As late as 1840 an Eastern city passed an
ordinance against the use of bathtubs, and umbrellas were at
one time denounced by the clergy as
being contrary to the biblical statement that "The Father
which is in Heaven... sends rain on the just and on the
unjust." (Matthew 5:45) When Benjamin Franklin made his kite and key
experiments in an endeavor to prove that lightning was
electricity, he was ridiculed as a dreamer... When Morse petitioned Congress for an
appropriation to construct a telegraph line from Baltimore to
Washington, a skeptical congressman sarcastically offered as
an amendment to the bill the suggestion that Mr. Morse at the
same time establish a telegraph line to the moon... Andrew D. White relates in "A History of the Warfare of Science with
Theology in Christendom": "When the Copernican doctrine
that the earth and planets revolve about the sun - perhaps the
greatest and most ennobling of scientific truths - was upheld
by Galileo as a truth and proved to be a truth by his
telescope, the church forbade all books
which affirmed the motion of the earth." The theological
opponents disproved Galileo's theory of the revolution
of the earth on its axis by placing a crowbar in a hole in the
ground, with the idea that if Galileo was right the crowbar
would fall out. As it did not do so, Galileo was deemed a
heretic and condemned to imprisonment and saved his life only
by retracting during his trial. But as he left his accusers he
declared under his breath, "And yet it moves." White states further: "Copernicus escaped
persecution only by death; Giordano
Bruno was burned alive as a monster
of impiety; Newton was bitterly attacked for dethroning Providence." "When quinine was introduced in Europe in 1638
it was stigmatized as an invention of the
devil and the opposition was so strong that it was not
introduced in England until 1653." "As late as 1770 religious scruples were still
felt regarding the lightning-rod of Benjamin Franklin, the
theological theory being that the storm is
the voice of God." "In 1847 when the Scotch physician advocated
the use of anaesthetics in obstetrical cases he was met by a
storm of opposition. From pulpit to
pulpit Simpson's use of chloroform was denounced as
impious and contrary to Holy Writ;
texts were cited abundantly, the ordinary declaration being
that to use chloroform was 'to avoid one
part of the primeval curse on woman.'"
Sir William Siemens, on the announcement of the first light bulb (1880): "Such startling announcements as these should be deprecated as being unworthy of science and mischievous to its true progress." Member of the French Academy of Sciences: "I personally have examined Mr. Edison's phonograph, and I find it is nothing but the clever use of ventriloquism." Margot Dalton: "I make it a policy to try never to make a complete idiot of myself twice in the same way. After all, there's always all kinds of new ways to make a complete idiot of myself. Why repeat the old ones?" Humphrey Davy: "The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures." Admiral Yamamoto, commander of the Japanese fleet after the Pearl Harbor attack: Speaking to cheering subordinates at the news of the attack: "I am afraid we have awakened a sleeping giant and have instilled in him a terrible resolve." Jon Meacham, Newsweek, March 31, 2003 issue, interviewing former President George H. W. Bush during Operation Iraqi Freedom: "What do you think is going on with France? [Pause] They’re French. Any elaboration? Nope. There’s always been some friction. I was once talking to a group of French intellectuals, and I said, 'You think we’re arrogant, and we think you’re French.' And they looked at each other and thought maybe I’d said something very intelligent..." Victor Zammit: "Orthodox scientists and surgeons before 1912 threw their surgical tools to the ground and put dirt on them to try to ridicule Dr. Joseph Lister's findings about infection by germs." John Adams: "We have not men fit for the times. We are deficient in genius, education, in travel, fortune - in everything. I feel unutterable anxiety." Bill Gates (1981): “640K [of computer memory] ought to be enough for anybody.” Thomas Malthus: In 1798 he declared that "the power of the earth to provide subsistence" is finite, and that "a gigantic, inevitable famine" would be forthcoming; but George Gilder has pointed out that Malthus "failed to grasp that it is not the earth but man that produces food." Relentless techno-agricultural advances have made a liar out of Malthus. Nick Murray, The Excellent Financial Advisor: "All pessimists are Malthusians, in that they extrapolate the problem - whatever the problem is - in a straight line, but they hold the potential for solution of the problem - i.e. human ingenuity and/or will - constant... Humankind in general, and Americans in particular, are always at their best in a crisis. This isn't a lesson of history, it's the lesson of history." Victor Zammit: "John Logie Baird, the inventor of television, was attacked by closed-minded skeptics who stated it was: 'absolute rubbish that television waves could produce a picture!'... The Scientific American, The New York Times, The New York Herald, the U.S. Army, academics — including Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy Simon Newcomb from John Hopkins University — and many other American scientists all heaped derision, ridicule and denigration onto the Wright brothers claiming that it was: 'scientifically impossible for machines to fly!' ... Sir William Preece, former chief engineer of Britain's Post Office will be remembered for making one of the most 'idiotic' comments in history about Edison's inventions. Sir William stated that Edison's lamp (parallel circuit) was a 'completely idiotic idea' ... Professors, including Professor Henry Morton who knew Edison, stated immediately before Edison demonstrated the electric light globe: 'On behalf of science ... Edison's experiments are a ... fraud upon the public' ... one of the leading scientists from the French Academy of Sciences stated that hypnosis is a fraud and stated after seeing a hypnotized subject with a four inch needle in the top of his arm: 'This subject has been paid for not showing he's in pain' ... another scientist from the French Academy of Sciences, after listening to a record made by Edison, stated: 'clearly that is a case of ventriloquism' ... COMMUNICATING with afterlife entities is the greatest discovery in human history. Science is making huge progress in the afterlife research. I predict within twenty years there will be a revolution in the afterlife science. It is reported there are millions around the world who have made contact with their loved ones from the otherside. People now are coming out and telling the world what they experienced. I am one of them myself. I kept quiet for many years – but as I stated a few weeks back – why should I not share with millions of others what they themselves experienced? I made contact with my crossed over parents. I asked my father many questions to ascertain authenticity. All questions were answered correctly. This is something I found out that many people experienced. They should come out in the open and share with us their most important experience in their life." http://victorzammit.com BusinessWeek, August 13, 1979: Cover story, "The Death of Equities: How Inflation Is Destroying The Stock Market... For better or worse, then, the US economy probably has to regard the death of equities as a near-permanent condition..." This was written within throwing distance of the start of the great Reagan Bull Market. Roy Orbison: The legendary rock star of "Pretty Woman" fame tells the story of his early days in the music business. Roy's beautiful singing voice, as it happened, was heard by Johnny Cash. Country Western's great baritone "deep-throat" enjoyed what he heard so much that he approached Roy and graciously offered a contact with the owner of the record company then-currently promoting Cash's work: "Tell him Johnny Cash recommended that you call him." Roy did just that, introduced himself on the phone, only to be greeted by the incredible and pig-headed response: "Johnny Cash doesn't run this record company!" to which was added the slamming down of the phone in Roy's ear! Editor's note: ha, ha, ha - Imagine giving the bums-rush to someone who would go on to sell millions and millions of records! This little story is dedicated to all job-hunters who have endured the ignominy of interviewing with churlish hiring-managers, those possessing talents inferior to those of the one interviewed. Wilbur Wright: "I confess that in 1901, I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for 50 years... Ever since, I have distrusted myself and avoided all predictions." Doug C. Engelbart: "A person's ability to grow and succeed is directly related to [an] ability to suffer embarrassment" as one learns and practices new skills. Richard Feynman: played an important role on the Presidential Rogers Commission, which investigated the Challenger disaster. Feynman's account reveals a disconnect between NASA's engineers and executives that was far more striking than he expected. His interviews of NASA's high-ranking managers revealed startling misunderstandings of elementary concepts. He concluded that the NASA management's space shuttle reliability estimate was fantastically unrealistic. He warned in the commission's report, "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled."
Victor Zammit Answers Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking, May 16, 2011, The Guardian: "British scientist Stephen Hawking has branded heaven a fairy story... 'I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark' ... in his 2010 book The Grand Design he said a deity no longer has any place in theories on the creation of the universe in the light of a series of developments in physics." Victor Zammit, 5-18-2011: UNIFORMED Prof Hawking said this week in an interview with the English Guardian newspaper that our brains are like computers. Then he said, "There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark." I say "PUT UP OR SHUT UP Professor." He made an 'a priori conclusion' - a decision without first investigating the scientific evidence for the afterlife. But other 'genius' scientists, physicists, chemists and biologists, scientifically examined the afterlife - read more
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