Quotes About Foreseeability

Could we have prevented in 100% certainty? I don't think anything is that certain. However, we would have had a very, very good chance for preventing it.

I hate when you see a film and after one scene you know what's going to happen and you can predict the whole story.

I can't predict the future.

If you'd asked me, it was only a matter of time before something like this happened. But of course, nobody had asked me.

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The past and the present are within my field of inquiry, but what a man may do in the future is a hard question to answer.

I don't have a feeling of doom, just impendence.

What is really amazing, and frustrating, is mankind's habit of refusing to see the obvious and inevitable until it is there, and then muttering about unforeseen catastrophes.

Did you ever think how monotonous your life would be if you could see all that was coming to you?

a two-word formulation for the miraculous ability of pundits to deduce that a past event had been inevitable: "retrospective clairvoyance.

In books, you always know what's coming next. There are no surprises.

It's much more efficient to prevent problems than clean them up.