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