"This picture is going to be one of the biggest white elephants of all time" - Victor Fleming, the director of Gone With The Wind, assessing its likely prospects at the box office
"I'm astounded by people who take eighteen years to write something. That's how long it took that guy to write Madame Bovary, and was that ever on the bestseller list?" - Sylvester Stallone
"Who could take that scruffy, arrogant buffoon seriously?" - Eddie Fisher on Richard Burton - just before Burton ran off with Elizabeth Taylor, Fisher's wife
"Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life." - Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking campaign
"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
"The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon." - Sir John Ericksen, Queen Victoria's surgeon, 1873
"Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy." - Drillers responding to Edwin L. Drake in 1859 when he tried to persuade them to drill for oil
"The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?" - Anonymous businessman declining to invest in radio in the 1920s
That quote goes in the uh, duh catagory. 
