“someone with whom I have an intimate relationship”
Tom Peters Daily, Weekly Quote
08 May 2017
Tom Peters Daily, Weekly Quote
“someone with whom I have an intimate relationship”
Tom Peters Daily, Weekly Quote
Source: Inventing the Future (1963), p. 161
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
Alan Kay (1971) at a 1971 meeting of PARC http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/09/27/invent-the-future/
Similar remarks are attributed to Peter Drucker and Dandridge M. Cole.
Cf. Dennis Gabor, Inventing the Future (1963): "The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented."
Nigel Calder reviewed Gabor's book and wrote, "we cannot predict the future, but we can invent it..."
1970s
“Too many are focused on rewriting the past, invent the future!”
Comments made in a speech at the computer museum regarding the energy spent in Silicon Valley at managing perception as opposed to creating new technology.
“Invention is the root of innovation. Innovation is the major force for change in the future.”
Comments made in the Q and A part of a speech at the Silicon Valley computer museum in 2005 regarding the energy spent in Silicon Valley at managing perception as opposed to creating new technology. In response to a question about the power of venture capital and consumer marketing and how it is determining the future of technology.