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Quotes About Foresight

cautiously, you avoid trouble. See all that you can – then, if you forget the perilous and
~ Confucius
What are you going to do? Go to sleep. I mean long range. I'm talking long range.
~ Cormac McCarthy
You may see the time you wish you had worse.
~ Cormac McCarthy
If you dont like to be laughed at dont fall on your ass, said Rawlins.
~ Cormac McCarthy
it might be well to remind ourselves that you cant misrepresent what has yet to occur.
~ Cormac McCarthy
discounting' is when you discount something too much, just because it's some time in the future.
~ Cory Doctorow
I have always been particularly touched by the proverb about the purpose of life being to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
said: "People who can put themselves in the place of other people, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for them.
~ Dale Carnegie
It is possible, however, that the artist is both thin-skinned and prophetic and, like the canary lowered into the mine shaft to test the air, has caught a whiff of something lethal.
~ Walker Percy
Chanter of Personality, outlining what is yet to be, I project the history of the future.
~ Walt Whitman
That's the thing people can't see when they're explaining to your butt what's going on and how you messing up. They can't see that you knew it long before they did.
~ Walter Dean Myers
The best way to predict the future is to invent it
~ Walter Isaacson
Some people say, "Give the customers what they want." But that's not my approach. Our job is to figure out what they're going to want before they do. I think Henry Ford once said, "If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, 'A faster horse!'" People don't know what they want until you show it to them. That's why I never rely on market research. Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page.
~ Walter Isaacson
I can't see any reason that anyone would want a computer of his own," DEC president Ken Olsen declared at a May 1974 meeting where his operations committee was debating whether to create a smaller version of its PDP-8 for personal consumers.
~ Walter Isaacson
La mejor manera de predecir el futuro es inventarlo.
~ Walter Isaacson
Some people say, "Give the customers what they want." But that's not my approach. Our job is to figure out what they're going to want before they do.
~ Walter Isaacson
If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, 'A faster horse!'" People don't know what they want until you show it to them. That's why I never rely on market research. Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page.
~ Walter Isaacson
Some people say, "Give the customers what they want." But that's not my approach. Our job is to figure out what they're going to want before they do. I think Henry Ford once said, "If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, 'A faster horse!' " People don't know what they want until you show it to them. That's why I never rely on
~ Walter Isaacson
There should be an honored place in history for statesmen whose ideas turned out to be right.
~ Walter Isaacson
I think Henry Ford once said, "If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, 'A faster horse!'" People don't know what they want until you show it to them. That's why I never rely on market research. Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page.
~ Walter Isaacson
It is 1958," he began. "IBM passes up a chance to buy a young fledgling company that has invented a new technology called xerography. Two years later, Xerox was born, and IBM has been kicking themselves ever since.
~ Walter Isaacson
La mejor forma de predecir el futuro es inventarlo
~ Walter Isaacson
Our habit of wishing backward from what is to what might have been is the soft but persistent tapping that cracks the crystal.
~ Walter Kirn
One thing I had learned in high school was that in sports you always had to move in a direction that your opponent did not expect. From Ping-Pong to prizefighting, the man with the unexpected moves was the player most likely to win.
~ Walter Mosley