Utter bilge

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The late SF author G. Harry Stine had a collection of quotes about how this or that technology now commonly in use would never work or never be useful. [1][2] It was called the "utter bilge" file after one of the quotes, "Space travel is utter bilge."

I've never seen all the quotes in one place, especially not online (excepting informal collections sometimes circulated in email and newsgroups), so I'm going to start collecting those I come across until I have enough of them to be worth moving to Issuepedia.

Quotes

"Space travel is utter bilge." — astronomer Sir Richard Wooley (also given as Sir Richard Van Der Riet Wolley [3]), 1956 [4]

"Very interesting, Whittle my dear boy, but it will never work". — said to the future Sir Frank Whittle, inventor of the modern aircraft jet engine, by his supervisor at Manchester University, upon viewing Whittle's original jet engine design [5]

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