Ever Wonder...??     
why the sun lightens our hair, but darkens our skin?
why you never see this on newspaper headline "Psychic Wins Lottery"?
why doctors call what they do "practice"?
why you have to click on "Start" while you try to stop Windows?
why the man who invests all your money is called a broker?
why there isn't mouse-flavored cat food?
who's in charge to taste dog food when it has a "new & improved" flavor?
why they sterilize the needle for lethal injections?
why they don't make the whole plane out of the material used for the
indestructible black box?
why sheep don't shrink when it rains?
why they are called apartments when they are all stuck together?

"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."
-- Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers"
-- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943

"I have travelled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year."
-- The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957

"But what ... is it good for?"
-- Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip

"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
-- Ken Olson, President, Chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977

"Sales people are useless. Customers will be attracted to good products without assistance."
-- Ken Olson, addressing a convention of DEC sales people

"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 wireless music box (nowadays known as the "radio") has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?"
-- David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.

"We don't like their sound, and your guitar music is on the way out."
-- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.

"If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this."
-- Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M "Post-It" Notepads..

"So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or, we' ll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And, they said, 'No.' So then, we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'" -- Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and HP interested in his and Steve Wozniak's personal computer.

"Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy."
-- Drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to drill for oil in 1859.

"640K ought to be enough for anybody."
-- BIll Gates, 1981

Fun Facts For those Born 1929 - 1979

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Those Born 1929-1979!

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the
1930's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's !!!

• First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant.They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes (whaaaatt??? omg....)
  
• Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based paints.
• We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we
  rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.
• As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, seat belts or air bags.
• Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.
• We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.
• We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
• We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank koolaide made with sugar, but we weren't overweight because... WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!!
• We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.
• No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K. (yep, secara.. blom ada hape gitu lohhh..)
  
• We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times and wiping out, we learned to solve the problem.
• We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or chat rooms... WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them (maen bekel, maen lompat tali, maen sepeda, nonton TVRI, megaloman, voltus, si unyil.. hehe...)
  
• We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these acccidents.
• We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
• We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.
• We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door, or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them.. (pipi, pipi... maen yook....)
  
• Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!?
• The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!
• These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever! (risk takers.... setuju bangeeeet!!!)
  

The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned

HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!