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“Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.”
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Jewish-American political theorist 1906–1975Related quotes
“The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency.”
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The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher (1974)
Context: The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all, we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds. That way we can keep open all the options, as we have in the past.
William Feller
(1906–1970) Croatian-American mathematician
Source: An Introduction To Probability Theory And Its Applications (Third Edition), Chapter XV, Markov Chains, p. 420.
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
Alan Kay
(1940) computer scientist
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
“The best way to predict your future is to create it.”
Abraham Lincoln
(1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
“The best way to predict your future is to create it”
Peter F. Drucker
(1909–2005) American business consultant