GAFFES & BLUNDERS

It doesn't matter what he does, he will never amount to anything!
Albert Einstein's teacher to his father, 1895.

Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - the ones we don't know we don't know.
Donald Rumsfeld - This comment before the war in Iraq

I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943

We don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.
Hewlett-Packard's rejection of Steve Jobs, who went on to found Apple Computers.

640K ought to be enough for anybody.
Bill Gates, 1981.

All homosexuals should be castrated.
Evangelist Billy Graham, a statement for which he later apologized.

I get to go to a lot of over-sea places, like Canada.
Britney Spears, on the good parts of being famous.

Rural Americans are real Americans. There's no doubt about that. You can't always be sure with other Americans. Not all of them are real.
Dan Quayle

We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes.
Leona Helmsley, the US businesswoman dubbed "the Queen of Mean." She was sentenced in 1992 to four years in prison and fined $ 7.1m for tax evasion.

First, let me make it very clear, poor people aren't necessarily killers. Just because you happen to be not rich doesn't mean you're willing to kill.
George W. Bush

I stand by all the misstatements that I've made.
Dan Quayle