Stupid
The following are some quotes that people made that were mistakes, blunders, or… well… just plain dumb.
Dumb Quotes
- “Smoking kills. If you’re killed, you’ve lost a very important part of your life.” [Brooke Shields]
- “If it weren’t for the killings, Washington would have one of the lowest crime rates in the country.” [Mayor Marion Barry]
- “The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.” [Kilgore Trout]
- “If your parents never had children, chances are you won’t either.” [Dick Cavett]
- “The only reason we’re 7-0 is because we’ve won all seven of our games.” [David Garcia]
- “I would like to live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were ever supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, but we cannot live forever, which is why I would not live forever.” [Miss Alabama 1994]
- “I invented the internet.”[Al Gore]
- “We are the president.” [Hillary Clinton]
- “I haven’t committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.” [Mayor David Dinkins]
Wrong, Dumb Predictions Quotes
- “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” [Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM in 1943]
- “We don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.” [Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles in 1962]
- “There is no need for any individual to have a computer in their home.” [Ken Olson, President of Digital Equipment Corp, in 1977]
- “No one will need more than 637 kb of memory for a personal computer. 640K ought to be enough for anybody.” [Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, in 1981]
- “Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.” [Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949]
- “Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.” [Lord Kelvin, ca. 1895, British mathematician and physicist]
- “Radio has no future.” [Lord Kelvin, ca. 1897]
- “Well informed people know it is impossible to transmit the voice over wires and that were it possible to do so, the thing would be of no practical value.” [The Boston Post in 1865]
Dan Quayle Quotes (Quayle-isms)
- “If we don’t succeed we run the risk of failure.” [Dan Quayle]
- “It is wonderful to be here today in the great state of Chicago.” [Dan Quayle]
- “It’s a question of whether we’re going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.” [Dan Quayle]
- “I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix.” [Dan Quayle]
- “For NASA, space is still a high priority.” [Dan Quayle]
- “We’re going to have the best-educated American people in the world.” [Dan Quayle]
- “A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.” [Dan Quayle]
- “It isn’t pollution that is hurting the environment, it’s the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.” [Dan Quayle]
George W. Bush Quotes (Bush-isms)
- “The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case.” [George W. Bush]
- “Rarely is the question asked: is our children learning.” [George W. Bush]
- “I think anybody who doesn’t think I’m smart enough to handle the job is underestimating.” [George W. Bush]
- “I think we agree, the past is over.” [George W. Bush]
- “Reading is the basics for all learning.” [George W. Bush]
- “It’s clearly a budget. It’s got a lot of numbers in it.” [George W. Bush]
- “A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.” [George W. Bush]
- “One word sums up probably the responsibility of any Governor, and that one word is ‘to be prepared.’” [George W. Bush]
