It Will Never Catch On/Quotes

Ryan: (as a gangster, dialing the phone) Someday they're gonna invent a phone where you just push buttons.
Colin: You're crazy!

—Whose Line Is It Anyway??

"You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bon-fire under her deck? I have no time for such nonsense."

—Napoleon Bonaparte on the steamship.

"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication."

—Western Union internal memo, 1876.

"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible."

—Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.

"The radio craze ... will soon fade."

—Thomas Edison, 1922