I've become increasingly fascinated with social media to improve on traditional ways of preparing for and predicting the future.
Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," said Scrooge. "But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change.
Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
We cannot undo the past but we can learn from it, and we cannot predict the future but we can shape and build it.
You cannot guess what happens in the future.
There's no such thing as writing about the future. The future hasn't happened yet.
People who try to predict the future by extrapolating in a line of more of what exists - they are always wrong.
I think it's impossible to predict the future but it is possible to look at the past and see how one can do differently from what one's ancestors have done and learn from their mistakes, and one can see how even though there are enormous forces which stop one doing what one wants to, there are little holes in which the individual can do something.
Only lie about the future.
I really don't know what happens next -- one so seldom does.
People have always had this craving to have someone tell them the future. Long ago, kings would hire people to read sheep guts. There's always been a market for people who pretend to know the future. Listening to today's forecasters is just as crazy as when the king hired the guy to look at the sheep guts.
The only way you can predict the future is to build it.
He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.
I can't predict the future and I don't have respect for people who try to.
Many are the things that man seeing must understand. Not seeing, how shall he know what lies in the hand of time to come?
Being in London has really taught me how important history is. Just having information of the past. It helps you predict the future, which is all we really have as, you know, humans.
I like science fiction. Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick and Vonnegut, and I really like Margaret Atwood, 'The Handmaid's Tale.' And you know, so much of science fiction has to do with predicting what's to come, so I think that's really interesting.
The pollsters are engaged in an ancient and primitive rite—trying to predict the future.
Before the discovery of quantum mechanics, the framework of physics was this: If you tell me how things are now, I can then use the laws of physics to calculate, and hence predict, how things will be later.
Perhaps at a later point important developments will be traced back to September 11. But for now we do not know which of the many scenarios will actually hold in the future.
If you've read a lot of vintage science fiction, as I have at one time or another in my life, you can't help but realise how wrong we get it. I have gotten it wrong more times than I've gotten it right. But I knew that when I started; I knew that before I wrote a word of science fiction.
I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her grandma could give someone the evil eye, and I'd better not cross her because she had some of that blood in her. Mother always believed that she could predict the future, and she had dreams that came true.
If ... the past may be no Rule for the future, all Experience becomes useless and can give rise to no Inferences or Conclusions.
I am not Nostradamus.Nor would I want to be. I'm convinced being able to tell the future is the worst superpower. I'd rather be invisible and being invisible never ends well. Just read H. G. Wells!
