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  • The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.

    Future   Power   Shapes  
    Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”
  • Methods for predicting the future: 1) read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls . . . collectively known as "nutty methods;" 2) put well-researched facts into sophisticated computer . . . commonly referred to as "a complete waste of time."

    Time   Tea Leaves   Tarot  
  • The greatest economic minds of the 19th century, all of them without exception, considered economic growth as a temporary necessity. When all human needs are satisfied, then we will have a stable economy, reproducing every year the same things. We will stop straining ourselves worrying about development or growth. How naïve they were! One more reason to be reluctant about predicting the future. No doubt they were wiser than me, but even they made such a mistake!

    Mistake   Years   Worry  
  • I won't say 'See you tomorrow' because that would be like predicting the future, and I'm pretty sure I can't do that.

  • 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.

  • The best way to predict the future is to create it.

  • I stopped predicting the future a long time ago.

    "Fred Durst Digs Wes Borland's New Band But Still Wants To Get Back To Bizkit" by Chris Harris, www.mtv.com. April 26, 2007.
  • It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.

    Funny   Business   Future  
  • There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.

    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com. 1932.
  • Making two possibilities a reality. Predicting the future of things we all know. Fighting off the diseased programming Of centuries, centuries, centuries, centuries. Science fails to recognise the single most Potent element of human existence. Letting the reigns go to the unfoldings faith, Science has failed our world. Science has failed our mother earth.

  • Psychic development is not a fanatical, freaky study, predicting the future, talking to UFOs, and being able to find out curious facts that are basically irrelevant to one's time in life.

  • I am incredibly bad at predicting the future; I am only smart enough to observe the present and listen to my intuition about tendencies.

    "The Invention and Reinvention of the City: An Interview with Rem Koolhaas". Interview with Paul Fraioli, jia.sipa.columbia.edu. April 19, 2012.
  • The desktop metaphor was invented because one, you were a stand-alone device, and two, you had to manage your own storage. That's a very big thing in a desktop world. And that may go away. You may not have to manage your own storage. You may not store much before too long.

    Two   Long   Going Away  
    "Steve Jobs: The Next Insanely Great Thing". Interview with Gary Wolf, www.wired.com. February 1, 1996.
  • The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?

    Silly   Creativity   Dumb  
  • That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you.

    Believe   Jazz   Kind  
  • Television won't last because people will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.

  • The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That's over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it's going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade.

    Dark   Years   Best Job  
    Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.39, Prabhat Prakashan
  • Economists are about as useful as astrologers in predicting the future (and, like astrologers, they never let failure on one occasion diminish certitude on the next).

    "A Clinton Report Card, So Far" by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., www.nytimes.com. April 11, 1993.
  • The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We're just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people - as remarkable as the telephone.

    "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. February 1985.
  • Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.

  • Knowledge is telling the past. Wisdom is predicting the future.

  • It's like when IBM drove a lot of innovation out of the computer industry before the microprocessor came along. Eventually, Microsoft will crumble because of complacency, and maybe some new things will grow. But until that happens, until there's some fundamental technology shift, it's just over.

    Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.47, Prabhat Prakashan
  • My specific goal is to revolutionize the future of the species. Mathematics is just another way of predicting the future.

    Goal   Way   Mathematics  
  • Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible.

  • Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia.

  • Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.

    "NIELS BOHR DOODLE GOOGLE: Great quotes from a man at the nucleus of atomic understanding" by Michael Cavna, www.washingtonpost.com. October 7, 2012.
  • Railroad carriages are pulled at the enormous speed of fifteen miles per hour by engines which, in addition to endangering life and limb of passengers, roar and snort their way through the countryside, setting fire to the crops, scaring the livestock, and frightening women and children. The Almighty certainly never intended that people should travel at such break-neck speed.

    Children   Fire   People  
  • I was not predicting the future, I was trying to prevent it.

  • The cinema is little more than a fad. It's canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage.

    Art   Drama   Blood  
  • Foresight is not about predicting the future, it's about minimizing surprise.

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