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Several more examples --picking up a copy of Navasky and Cerf's book, The Experts Speak, might facilitate this article, if one can be found.
*[[Irving Fisher]], professor of economics at Yale, declared a few days before the 1929 stock market crash, "Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. I do not feel there will be soon if ever a 50 or 60 point break from present levels, such as (bears) have predicted. I expect to see the stock market a good deal higher within a few months."<ref>Quoted on Oct. 17, 1929.</ref>
*[[Irving Fisher]], professor of economics at Yale, declared a few days before the 1929 stock market crash, "Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. I do not feel there will be soon if ever a 50 or 60 point break from present levels, such as (bears) have predicted. I expect to see the stock market a good deal higher within a few months."<ref>Quoted on Oct. 17, 1929.</ref>
*Philipp von Jolly, professor for physics and mathematics at the University of Munich, advised [[Max Planck]] in 1874 not to study physics as almost everything was already discovered, and all that remained was to fill a few unimportant holes.
*Philipp von Jolly, professor for physics and mathematics at the University of Munich, advised [[Max Planck]] in 1874 not to study physics as almost everything was already discovered, and all that remained was to fill a few unimportant holes.
*[[Aristotle]] believed in the spontaneous generation of life from inanimate matter; experts adhered to his theory for over two thousand years.
*[[Jean Boulliard]] of the French Academy of Sciences claimed that mechanical reproduction of human speech was an impossibility.
*[[Sir George Bidell Airy]], Astronomer Royal of Great Britain, persuaded the British government to discontinue funding for Charles Babbage's analytical engine on the grounds that it was "worthless." Modern astronomy, of course, relies heavily on computers that wouldn't have been possible without Babbage's work.
*A Yale economics professor dismissed Fred Smith's idea of overnight mail delivery aided by computers as deserving no better than a 'C' grade because "in order to earn better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible." <ref>http://www.mamohanraj.com/expert.html</ref>
*[[Steve Jobs]] and [[Steve Wozniak]]'s idea for a personal computer was summarily dismissed by Atari and Hewett-Packard, in part because they didn't have college degrees yet. <ref>http://www.mamohanraj.com/expert.html</ref>
*[[Marechal Ferdinand Foch]], professor of strategy at Ecole Superieure de Guerre, dismissed airplanes as "interesting toys" of no military value.
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==See also==
==See also==