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“One may say that predictions are dangerous particularly for the future.” — Edward Teller, Conversations on the Dark Secrets of Physics

Author YahooeyPosted on September 28, 2022September 26, 2022Categories QuotationsTags Edward Teller, predictions1 Comment on Quote of the Day

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The past we can only know from imperfect sources, including our own memories. The future we can't know, other than that it will originate in the past but then depart from it.

“The past we can only know from imperfect sources, including our own memories. The future we can’t know, other than that it will originate in the past but then depart from it.” — John Lewis Gaddis, On Grand Strategy

Author YahooeyPosted on January 3, 2019December 28, 2018Categories QuotationsTags future, John Lewis Gaddis, memories, On Grand Strategy, past, predictionsLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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No one can anticipate everything that might happen. Sensing possibilities, though, is better than having no sense at all of what to expect.

“No one can anticipate everything that might happen. Sensing possibilities, though, is better than having no sense at all of what to expect.” — John Lewis Gaddis, On Grand Strategy

Author YahooeyPosted on July 19, 2018June 25, 2018Categories QuotationsTags anticipation, John Lewis Gaddis, On Grand Strategy, possibilities, predictable, predictions, unexpected, unpredictableLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.

“We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.” — Abraham Lincoln, Speech on the Sub-Treasury (26 December 1839)

Author YahooeyPosted on February 12, 2015January 17, 2015Categories QuotationsTags Abraham Lincoln, experience, future, predictions, Speech on the Sub-TreasuryLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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I've always been careful never to predict anything that had not already happened.
“I’ve always been careful never to predict anything that had not already happened.” — Marshall McLuhan, Interview, Tom Wolfe, TVOntario, August 1970

Author YahooeyPosted on October 9, 2014August 28, 2014Categories QuotationsTags Interview, Marshall McLuhan, predictions, Tom Wolfe, TVOntario1 Comment on Quote of the Day

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It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.

“It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.” — John Maynard Keynes, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money

Author YahooeyPosted on June 5, 2014December 25, 2015Categories QuotationsTags certainty, John Maynard Keynes, predictions, The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money, uncertain futureLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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