Super into this Country music channel 100 greatest country songs special. I have it on tape and try to watch it whenever I can. so many of the songs are sooooo good. it is forcing me to take a look at my own songwriting.

"Everything that can be invented has been invented."
 -  Charles H. Duell, Director of US Patent Office, 1899

 "Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?"
 -  Harry M. Warner, Warner Bros Pictures, 1927

 "There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom."
 -  Robert Miliham, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1923

 "Heavier than air flying machines are impossible."
 -  Lord Kelvin, President, Royal Society, 1895

 "The horse is here today, but the automobile is only a novelty - a fad."
 -  President of Michigan Savings Bank advising against investing in the
 Ford Motor Company

 "Video won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six
 months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every
 night."
 - Daryl F. Zanuck, 20th Century Fox, commenting on television in 1946

 "Guitar music is on the way out."
 - Decca Records turning down the Beatles, 1962.
    
 "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, originator of Post-It Notepads.
    
 "Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction."
 - Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology, 1872.

 "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.

 "Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote."
 -  Grover Cleveland, 1905

 "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.

 "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.

 "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.

 "640K ought to be enough for anybody."
 - Bill Gates, 1981

 "Such startling announcements as these should be deprecated as being
 unworthy of science and mischievous to its true progress."
 - Sir William Siemens, electrical engineer, upon hearing Edison's
 Announcement of a successful light bulb.

 "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
  - Ken Olson, president of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977.