Jamais Cascio Quotes

I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes.

Foresight is not about predicting the future, it's about minimizing surprise.

Prudence is foresight and far-sightedness. It's the ability to make immediate decisions on the basis of their longer-range effects.

We need to think the worst in order to avoid it.

We must solve problems before they occur, rather than scrambling to deal with crises after they erupt..

I'm always good at seeing five, ten steps ahead. Like, really thinking ahead, you know? Reverse engineering, whatever it is, you know.

Plan for what is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small.

The real trick in life is to turn hindsight into foresight that reveals insight.

We have to always look ahead enough moves to be well prepared, even for victory!

I'm no genius. I'm not at all; I just happen to look five or 10 years ahead and think things through.

If you don't choose to do it in leadership time up front, you do it in crisis management time down the road.

Take care of what is difficult while it is still easy, and deal with what will become big while it is yet small.

The goals will come; we just have to think about working ahead of the next game.

I have no special strategy. I can just wait to see what my opponent offers.

We've gotta be trying to think of what's coming next before it comes next.

The one characteristic more essential than any other is foresight... It should be the growing nation with a future which takes the long look ahead.

Anticipation forward points the view.

great men burn bridges before they come to them

The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future.

Humans are the only animals that try to dwell in the future. You don't have to purely live in the present situation without a plan, but the future plans you make can only be based on the aspects of the future that manifest within the present situation.

The Congress is not willing to think about the long term. They act like activist shareholders, to use that phrase again. They're not thinking about what can we do that will make us richer, safer, and stronger next year, and the year after, and five and 10 years out.

We believe in the wisdom once expressed by the hockey star Wayne Gretzky, who explained his success by saying, 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.'

I like to pride myself on thinking pretty long term, but not that long term.

In the army we are drilled into execution and then supervision, to make sure everything goes the way you planned it. But there is another thing that we do in the military, that I think perhaps isn't done enough in corporate life: As soon as you have made that decision, you start on the contingency planning. Because there is, as we like to say, a thinking, breathing enemy out there, who is not going to let you do just what you want.

America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.