Novelty Naysayer Gifts

'I love this room, so many happy memories of killing innovation..'

'Williams, we're not used to receiving such excellent ideas as these, so we'd like to tone them down a bit.'

Valuable business advice from some famous disruptive technologies.

Traditional vs alternative medicine.

Newfangled contraceptions phobia: 'David, David, we're sinking! Our water bed has sprung a leak!'

'You sure complain a lot for someone who says he loves nature.'

"Well you said you wanted a simple, cheap solution!" (IT Solutions).

The anti-social network: 'Hey Jeffrey...I need help setting up my dad's anti-social network.'

'Dear sir, thank you for your idea of a helicopter ejection-seat, but...'

"He's our new trend-spotter?"

"I don't care if it does have wifi. . . it's a vegetable peeler!"

"My kid could have done that with AI."

"Well, by that logic no one would ever shave a clock onto a monkey."

"Now, you show me yours"

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"They hired a cat to distract them from thoughts of change."

'It isn't that we don't have high technology. We don't have any technology.'

"To give it credibility let's tell the boss we stole our business idea from the Japanese instead of thinking it up ourselves!"

Brighton boatman offering the hire of a pleasure boat on a very cold day

'You and your aversion to needles!'

'Appleby believes he's come up with a way to defeat facial recognition software.'

God is dead.

'You name it - we do it: charges, clusters colliders, computers conductors, fluids, novals, sonics and strings.'

'You had to get shots? I couldn't stand that. I hate needles!'

'Sorry we're late, we had a bit of trouble finding you.'

'One day, this will make a wonderful metaphor.'

'I said my first no today...'

"My wife is a doctor. That's great because I can endure the TV news only under general anesthesia."

'I told you that thing would mess up the environment!'

'He's extremely valuable to us - never comes up with anything, which eliminates all the blind alleys.'

'Tell the Nielsen people I'm channel hopping, and let it go at that.'

Ockham's razor