Never opine short of certainty.

It’s never enjoyable to have our own words thrown in our faces, but it’s fun to watch it happen to other people. Have a look. (Oh really, Mr. Khrushchev?)

“So unbelievably horrible, so appallingly unmusical, so dogmatically insensitive to the magic of the art, that they qualify as crowned heads of anti-music.”

—National Review founder William F. Buckley, on The Beatles, 1964

"Preempt Doris Day? Are you out of your mind?"

—CBS network president Bob Wood, rejecting an offer to air "Monday Night Football," 1970

“Tiger never does anything that would make him look ridiculous.”

—Golf Digest, asserting that Tiger Woods would make a fine role model for President Obama, 2010

“The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a ‘C,’ the idea must be feasible.”

—A Yale University management professor, on a paper by Fred Smith proposing reliable overnight delivery service, 1960s. Smith went on to found FedEx in 1971.

“Reagan doesn’t have that presidential look.”

—United Artists executive, rejecting Ronald Reagan as a lead for the 1964 film The Best Man, a behind-the-scenes look at presidential campaigns

“The Japanese don’t make anything the people in the U.S. would want.”

—John Foster Dulles, U.S. Secretary of State, 1954

"Get rid of the pointed ears guy."

—NBC executive on the Mr. Spock character in the new series "Star Trek," 1966

"You’ve got to call yourself ‘Rock’ or ‘Jack’ or something. Anything as long as it’s not 'Elvis Presley.'"

—Rockabilly musician Ronnie Hawkins to Elvis Presley

"Of all the nations, [Germany] is probably the least corrupted by the lust of conquest...."

—Boston Daily Globe, 1901

"Nothing of importance happened today."

—King George III, in his diary, July 4, 1776

“We will bury you.”

—Nikita Khrushchev, premier of the Soviet Union, predicting that communism would triumph over U.S. capitalism, 1956

"I don’t need bodyguards."

—Union leader Jimmy Hoffa, one month before he disappeared in July, 1975

“To throw bombs from an airplane will do as much damage as throwing bags of flour. It will be my pleasure to stand on the bridge of any ship while it is attacked by airplanes.”

—Newton Baker, U.S. Minister of Defense, 1921

“And for the tourist who really wants to get away from it all, safaris in Vietnam."

—Newsweek magazine, predicting popular holidays for the late 1960s

All hideous opinions courtesy of the Bad Opinion Generator.