“Woman may be said to be an inferior man.”
— Aristotle, 350 b.c.e.
“The ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication.”
— Western Union, 1876
“The horse is here to stay but the automobile is only a novelty — a fad.”
— Horace Rackham, Michigan Savings Bank, 1903
“There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.”
— Ken Olsen, Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
“The cloning of mammals … is biologically impossible.”
— James McGrath and Davor Solter, genetic researchers, 1984
“Websites will never replace newspapers.”
— Newsweek, 1995
“There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share.”
— USA Today, 2007
虽然 #AbnormalPsychology 本来也是美国人写的教科书,书里自己也承认现代(心理学)研究的一大局限性是研究对象大部分是西方世界的,但是我看到整本书不断在讲美国这个美国那个的还是好不舒服。。今天看了三十页之后感觉自己的美国浓度已经过量了,刚看到时间线上有人推荐一本题材我很感兴趣的书,但由于是美国XXX学会出品的我立刻就划过去了。。