Shoot for the stars!

STUDIO 48 --

• “No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.”
– Orville Wright

• “Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?”
– Harry Warner (of Warner Brothers, 1927)

• “The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a ‘C,’ the idea must be feasible.”
– A Yale University professor’s comment on Fred Smith’s paper proposing an overnight delivery service, which would later become FedEx.

• “My imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew.”
– H.G. Wells

• “Everything that can be invented has been invented.”
– Charles H. Duell (Commissioner, US Office of Patents, 1899)



Sometimes, we sell ourselves short. I’m going to try to avoid such actions in the future, less someday a quote of mine wind up on this list.



• “... and the sea will grant each man new hope, as sleep brings dreams of home,"
– Christopher Columbus (before returning to Spain)