{"id":2879,"date":"2007-05-06T07:44:04","date_gmt":"2007-05-06T07:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2879"},"modified":"2007-05-06T07:44:04","modified_gmt":"2007-05-06T07:44:04","slug":"famous_opinions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2879","title":{"rendered":"Famous Opinions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bigpicture.typepad.com\/comments\/2007\/05\/famous_opinions.html\">Summarized by Barry Ritholtz<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;Man will never reach the moon regardless of all future scientific  advances.&#8221;<br \/>\n-Dr. Lee DeForest, &#8220;Father of Radio &#038; Grandfather of Television.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;The  Atomic bomb will never go off. I speak as an expert in explosives.&#8221;<br \/>\n-Admiral William Leahy, US Atomic Bomb Project<br \/>\n&#8220;There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom.&#8221;<br \/>\n-Robert Millikan, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1923<br \/>\n&#8220;Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.&#8221;<br \/>\n-Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949<br \/>\n&#8220;I think there is a world market for maybe five computers .&#8221;<br \/>\n-Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943<br \/>\n&#8220;I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked  with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won&#8217;t last out the year.&#8221;<br \/>\n-The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summarized by Barry Ritholtz: &#8220;Man will never reach the moon regardless of all future scientific advances.&#8221; -Dr. Lee DeForest, &#8220;Father of Radio &#038; Grandfather of Television.&#8221; &#8220;The Atomic bomb will never go off. I speak as an expert in explosives.&#8221; -Admiral William Leahy, US Atomic Bomb Project &#8220;There is no likelihood man can ever tap [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}