One moment several things are possible, the next moment only one happens, and the rest don't exist. Except that other worlds have sprung into being, on which the did happen.
The CIA laid out several scenarios and said life could be lousy, life could be OK, life could be better, and they were just guessing as to what the conditions might be like.
A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.
Adolphus is not at his desk. That means he is somewhere in the Monstrumarium, has gone home for the day, or is dead.
What science fiction does is take what might be possible someday and examine what might happen if it were - the drawbacks and the positive things.
Our job is not to predict the future. Rather, it's to suggest all the possible futures - so that society can make informed decisions about where we want to go.
Many of the things that seem impossible now will become realities tomorrow.
History does not disclose to us its alternatives.
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.
The entrepreneurial mind-set is that risk is the heightened probability that there is a big range of possible outcomes.
I don't know what the future holds. Anything is possible.
I'm holding back, delaying the information. I'm lingering in the prior moment because it was a time when other outcomes were still possible.
In the case of Donald Trump I think you've got to accept that a lot of what's going on in political discourse is based upon judgement. How the economy works - how people work - what will come to pass - what will not come to pass - what is possible - what is not possible. There is this whole modal dimension. There's a lot in politics that is making a judgement about what might be and can be and would be. Trump frightens a lot of people but there is a bizarre possible world in which it turns out as he's vindicated, though most of us think the evidence is against it.
Science fiction is the great opportunity to speculate on what could happen. It does give me, as a futurist, scenarios.
Anything can happen in this world, for an ordinary girl
The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present. The future I have shown you tonight is not yet fixed. But it is more likely to become so with the passing of every day because nothing is being done to turn it aside. If you would change it, do as I have told you.
What's in store for me in the direction I don't take?
God will turn the might have been into a wonderful culture for the future.
Chile have three options - they could win or they could lose.
Life is not so simple. There are many futures. The life of a single person is like a great tree: every branch, every twig, every leaf is a possible future.
I think teens are drawn to these speculative books that portray what might happen and what could happen.
The adjacent possible is a kind of shadow future, hovering on the edges of the present state of things, a map of all the ways in which the present can reinvent itself.
The only science fiction I have written is Fahrenheit 451. It's the art of the possible. Science fiction is the art of the possible. It could happen. It has happened.
Anything is possible in football and every match is different!
Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past; prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass, though but slowly.
