Jamais Cascio Quotes

I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.

Forecasting our futures is built into our psyches because we will soon have to manage that future. We have no choice. No matter how often we fail, we can never stop trying.

It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all.

Joseph Bazalgette created a sewer system which he originally sized for London's needs of the time - he then doubled it to anticipate the future beyond. These are the qualities that I admire.

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

A leader not only has to be in the center but also be in the future.

I like to plan. I like to see the future.

I'm always looking to know what I'm going to do before I receive the ball in order to make my team play better.

It's always good to live in future tense.

Circumstances can force your hand. So think ahead!

hindsight is not a strategy.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

So many young people say, 'I'm just going to see what happens.' It's so much more powerful to make things happen and have a plan.

It doesn't always happen according to the way you have planned things out but I feel if you have covered most of the aspects, it does help out there in the middle.

I always looked ahead.

If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.

There are people that go ahead, that see problems before the rest, that take decisions before the rest.

Storytelling enables us to play out decisions before we make them, to plan routes before we take them, to work out the campaign before we start the war, to rehearse the phrases we're going to use to please or placate our wives and husbands.

While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future.

My business is to prevent the future.

It's always been my formula to get the next picture set up before anyone's seen the last one.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.