"[COVID] will go away in April"

This thread is for quotes which turned out to be stupendously wrong.

I'll start.


Aerodynamics is for people who don't know how to build engines.

-- Enzo Ferrari



Your turn ...







(sources for thread title:

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/24/coronavirus-response-trump-wants-to-reopen-us-economy-by-easter.html

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/02/donald-trump-coronavirus-warm-weather)

never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups


this one appears to have a smidge of merit
i have failed the assignment

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."

Thomas Watson, president of IBM, 1943

@divegeester
I am building the wall and Mexico will pay for it.

@sonhouse


"Dewey Defeats Truman"

front page of the Chicago Daily Tribune, 1948

“Television won’t be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.”


Daryl Zanuck, executive producer at 20th Century Fox, 1946

There will be global chaos starting at midnight, January 1, 2000 - aka, Y2K

many experts

„The state will wither away.“

— Karl Marx

"I predict the internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse."

Robert Metcalfe, founder of 3Com [1995]