previsões falhadas

aqui fica uma colectânea tirada daqui:

• «We will bury you.»
  Nikita Krushchev, Soviet Premier, predicting Soviet communism will win over U.S. capitalism, 1958.
  
  
• «I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious sensibilities of anyone.»
  Charles Darwin, in the foreword to his book, The Origin of Species, 1869.
  
  
• «Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.»
  Irving Fisher, economics professor at Yale University, 1929.
  
  
• «If anything remains more or less unchanged, it will be the role of women.»
  David Riesman, conservative American social scientist, 1967.
  
  
• «Democracy will be dead by 1950.»
  John Langdon-Davies, A Short History of The Future, 1936. TIME, writing off Mad magazine in 1956.
  
  
• «Four or five frigates will do the business without any military force.» -– British prime minister Lord North, on dealing with the rebellious American colonies, 1774.
  
  
• «In all likelihood world inflation is over.»
  International Monetary Fund Ceo, 1959.
  
  
• «This antitrust thing will blow over.»
  Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft.
  
  
• «Remote shopping, while entirely feasible, will flop - because women like to get out of the house, like to handle merchandise, like to be able to change their minds.»
  TIME, 1966, in one sentence writing off e-commerce long before anyone had ever heard of it.
  
  
• «It will be years - not in my time - before a woman will become Prime Minister.»
  Margaret Thatcher, future Prime Minister, October 26th, 1969.
  
  
• «Read my lips: NO NEW TAXES.»
  George Bush, 1988.
  
  
• «Capitalist production begets, with the inexorability of a law of nature, its own negation.»
  Karl Marx.
  
  
• «I am tired of all this sort of thing called science here... We have spent millions in that sort of thing for the last few years, and it is time it should be stopped.»
  Simon Cameron, U.S. Senator, on the Smithsonian Institute, 1901.
  
  
• «There is no doubt that the regime of Saddam Hussein possesses weapons of mass destruction. As this operation continues, those weapons will be identified, found, along with the people who have produced them and who guard them.»
  General Tommy Franks, March 22nd, 2003.