Originally Posted by
bulgie
Or "People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it". -anonymous
Don't believe anyone who attributes that to George Bernard Shaw or Confucious, neither one said or wrote that, as far as scholars can find.
It's probably just a mis-remembered attempt at quoting the humor magazine “Puck” from December 1902:
"Things move along so rapidly nowadays that people saying: “It can’t be done,” are always being interrupted by somebody doing it."
Back in the early 80's one of my friends asked me why bicycle frames were not TIG welded together. I replied that it must not be possible or someone would have been doing it. I did know that KHS (I think) made a TIG welded tandem frame but I assumed that was only possible because a tandem of that era used thick walled tubing.
In 1992 I took a TI welding class at UBI. It was the first one they offered with Gary Helfrich (one of the founders of Merlin) instructing. I''ve TiGed a few titanium and steel frames but making them is not really what I am interested in doing.