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Rejecting the Impossible

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.