Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de. The Wisdom of the Sands. Translated by Stuart Gilbert, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950.
This quotation became the mantra of the MIT Media Lab's Professor Hugh Herr and others whose total efforts are spend inventing things for the future.
This practice credited to the Americans in WWII while the German’s waited for instructions, was not an American invention. It appears to have originated with one of the greatest of the Russian military leaders.
Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte de sainte exupery, simply known as de Saint-Exupéry, was a French writer, poet, aristocrat, journalist and pioneering aviator. He became a laureate of several of France's highest literary awards and also won the United States National Book Award. He is best remembered for his novella The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince) and for his lyrical aviation writings, including Wind, Sand and Stars and Night Flight.
