Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Evan Esar: Tomorrow, yesterday, today
“An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn’t happen today.” —Evan Esar.
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Anonymous: Ignorance better organised
“A good forecaster is not smarter than everyone else, he merely has his ignorance better organised.” —Anonymous.
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C F Kettering: Interest in the future
“My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.” —C.F. Kettering.
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Arthur C Clarke: Little ironic
“This is the first age that’s ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.” —Arthur C. Clarke.
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Mark Twain: Full of risks
“Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks. ” —Mark Twain.
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Edgar R Fiedler: Ground glass
“He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.” –Edgar R. Fiedler.
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Paul A Samuelson: Nine out of the last five recessions
“Wall Street indices predicted nine out of the last five recessions!” —Paul A. Samuelson.
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Edgar R Fiedler: Herd instinct
“The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.” —Edgar R. Fiedler.
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Voltaire: Pregnant with the future
“It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.” —Voltaire.
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Henri Poincare: Without certainty
“It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all. ” —Henri Poincare.
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Albert Einstein: Comes soon enough
“I never think of the future, it comes soon enough. ” —Albert Einstein.
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Mother Shipton: Land of the Cross
“The lily shall remain in a merry world; and he shall be moved against the seed of the lion, and shall stand on one side of the country with a number of ships. Then shall the Son of Man, having a fierce beast in his arms, whose Kingdom is the land of the moon, which…
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Andrew Lang: Support rather than illumination
“An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts — for support rather than for illumination.” —Andrew Lang.
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Leo Rosten: Unexpected
“Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them. ” —Leo Rosten in Rome Wasn’t Burned in a Day.
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Marquis of Halifax: Good memory
“The best qualification of a prophet is to have a good memory. ” —Marquis of Halifax.
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Nils Bohr: About the future
“Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.” —Nils Bohr, Nobel laureate in Physics.
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Kehlog Albran: Only longer
“I have seen the future and it is very much like the present, only longer.” —Kehlog Albran, The Profit.
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Lao Tzu: Knowledge and predicting
“Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.” —Lao Tzu, 6th Century BC Chinese Poet.
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Lloyd Mosemann: Software is always inadequate
“Software is so vital to military systems that, without it, most could not operate at all. Its importance to overall system performance and the generally accepted notion that software is always inadequate makes software the highest risk item and must be steadfastly managed…Failure to address risk has been the downfall of many DoD acquisition programs.…
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Mahathir Mohamad: Adverse comments from others
“If you want to be honest with yourself, you have to take criticism, even if you attract adverse comments from others.” —Mahathir Mohamad.
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Adolf Hitler: Always more difficult
“It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.” —Adolf Hitler.
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Peter Andre: Divorce
“Divorce isn’t just the person, it’s everything that goes with it – your kids, the adjustment, everything.” —Peter Andre.
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Andrea McLean: Bumps and grazes
“I used to think everything had to be perfect, but now I know perfection doesn’t exist – life comes with bumps and grazes.” —Andrea McLean.
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G K Chesterton: For men
“The Christian Church is not made for good men, but for men.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Only a hobby
“The answer to the question, ‘What is Wrong?’ is, or should be, ‘I am wrong.’ Until a man can give that answer his idealism is only a hobby.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Bad uses of things
“There are no bad things, only bad uses of things. If you will, there are no bad things but only bad thoughts; and especially bad intentions.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Essence of Sentimentalist
“This is the essence of the Sentimentalist; that he seeks to enjoy every idea without its sequence, and every pleasure without its consequence.” —G K Chesterton.
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Shane Parrish: World is smarter than we are
“When things happen that agree with our view of the world, we naturally think they are good for us and others. When they conflict with our views, they are wrong and bad. But the world is smarter than we are.” —Shane Parrish.
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G K Chesterton: Catholic capital
“The truth is that the modern world, with its modern movements, is living on its Catholic capital. It is using, and using up, the truths that remain out of the old treasury of Christendom; including, of course, many truths known to pagan antiquity but crystallized in Christendom.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Uninterested person
“There is no such thing as an uninteresting subject: there is only such a thing as an uninterested person.” —G K Chesterton.
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Orson Welles: Intimate dinners for four
“My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.” —Orson Welles.
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Ambrose Bierce: Absurdity
“Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.” —Ambrose Bierce.
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Samuel Johnson: So much of everything
“A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.” – Samuel Johnson.
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Stephen Hawking: Purely destructive
“I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.” – Stephen Hawking.
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Ambrose Bierce: Love
“Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.” —Ambrose Bierce.
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Isaac Asimov: Not through ignorance
“If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.” —Isaac Asimov.
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Dean Martin: Without holding on
“You’re not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.” —Dean Martin.
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Warren Beatty: Procreative racial deconstruction
“All we need is a voluntary, free-spirited, open-ended program of procreative racial deconstruction. Everybody just keep fuckin’ everybody ’til they’re all the same color.” —Warren Beatty.
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Isaac Asimov: Troublesome transition
“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.” —Isaac Asimov.
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Woody Allen: Terrible love life
“My love life is terrible. The last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty.” —Woody Allen.
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Napoleon Bonaparte: Tricks of war
“You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your tricks of war.” —Napoleon.
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Oscar Wilde: Always forgive your enemies
“Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.” —Oscar Wilde.
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Ambrose Bierce: Rapturous contemplation
“Man: An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be.” —Ambrose Bierce.
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Albert Einstein: Both disappointed
“Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.” —Albert Einstein
