Gloria Steinem Quotes

I do not like to talk about the future. I don't like to be one of those people. It's so easy to have a very vague idea and say, oh, computers will be 3D-ish and then 10 years later I'll say I predicted it 10 years ahead. I don't think that's honest and I don't think that's valid and worth anything.

Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.

Newspapers tell beforehand what is going to happen - maybe.

One of my few shortcomings is that I can't predict the future.

My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 'tis to crow: Don't never prophesy — onless ye know.

We futurists have a magic button. We follow every statement about a failed forecast with 'yet.'

Science fiction is about extrapolation, looking back through history, spotting a trend, and predicting where it will go.

The art of prophecy is very difficult, especially with respect to the future.

I predict, not because I know, but because I'm asked.

Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past; prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass, though but slowly.

One of the things that I think we have learned is that we should all be very careful about making predictions about the future.

It is the ability to make predictions about the future that is the crux of intelligence.

We need to stop, and admit it: we have a prediction problem. We love to predict things—and we aren’t very good at it.

I refuse to say anything beyond five years because I don't think we can see much beyond five years.

Prediction is difficult - particularly when it involves the future.

Pundits forecast not because they know, but because they are asked.

We can speculate. Last time I checked, the future doesn't take my advice.

Forecasting is very difficult, especially when it involves the future.

While we may open the books of the past, we may but grant flying glances of the future, through the mist that veils it.

Predictions are preposterous. What usually happens is that people tell you that what they'd like to see happen instead of what they really think will happen. There are so many variations and possibilities that there's no way to ever really know for certain.

There are always so many conjectures as to the issue of any event that, whatever the outcome, there will always be people to say: 'I said then that it would be so'

Consciousness-one level is understanding where we are in space. Consciousness two is where we understand our position in society: who's top dog, who's underdog and who's in the middle. And type-three consciousness is simulating the future. And type-three consciousness, only humans have this ability to see far into the future.

To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass.

I can't predict the future.

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.