Dr. Lee DeForest was inventor of
the Television. You might think that such a man would see anything as possible.
But he famously said, “despite all future scientific advances, man will never
reach the moon.”
Robert Millikan won the Nobel prize
in physics in 1923. He said, “There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power
of the atom.”
An engineer of advanced computer
systems at IBM in 1968 commented on the microchip saying: But... what is it
good for?
And an internal memo at Western
Union dated 1876 said the telephone had to many shortcomings and was of no
inherent value to us. David Sarnoff’s associates in the 1920s declined to
invest in radio saying that the wireless music box has no imaginable commercial
value.
Decca recording Company, in 1962
rejected the Beatles saying “We don’t like their sound, and Guitar music is on
the way out.”
-Rabbi Stephen Weiss
Think beyond what is.
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