A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make. -- Response to Debbi Fields' idea of starting Mrs. Fields' Cookies.

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.

I do not know what I seem to the world, but to myself I appear to have been like a boy playing upon the seashore while the great ocean of truth lay before me all undiscovered. Author: Sir Issac Newton