- February 20, 1524 - Worldwide deluge according to German astrologer Johann Stoffler (later moved to 1588)
- 1882 & 1911 - End of the world according to Scottish astrologer Charles Piazzi Smyth based on the calculations of the great pyramid of Giza
- 1952 - evangelist Billy Graham stated "It's all going to be over"
- "I have traveled 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.
- "Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" -- H. M. Warner, co-founder of Warner Brothers, 1927.
What would the world be, once bereft of wet and wildness?
Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.
-- Gerard Manley Hopkins
Monday, August 13, 2007
certainly
This is a list of failed predictions. Some favorites: