"The world potential market for copying machines is 5000 at most."~ IBM, to the eventual founders of Xerox, saying the photocopier had no market large enough to justify production, 1959.
The wisdom of Seuss
submitted on: September 18, 2011 by Elephant Island
A man ahead of his time he recognized many of the challenges facing humanity and articulated them to an overlooked audience - kids.
Throwing political correctness to the wind he tackled tough topics with cheeky satire, framed with an imaginary world that kids love. Timelessly Dr. Seuss' star making machines illustrate the absurdity of racism, elephants and microscopic dust colonies create discussions around tolerance and a stack of turtles becomes a conversation around dictatorship.
Ted Geisel (aka Dr Seuss) never judged a child's capacity to consider large concepts or ability to change the world: He worried about the arms build-up in The Butter Battle Book, gave a voice to the environment in The Lorax and grumped about the materialism of Christmas in How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
With millions of books in print, and nearly all of his 50-plus titles still available for sale and the amount of times The Lorax is requested in our house for a goodnight story,
you gotta know
the wisdom of Seuss
is starting to grow.
I look at the world through the wrong end of a telescope.
The original 'Busta Rhyme': Dr. Seuss