Nicholas Negroponte Quotes

Some people cannot see a good thing when it is right here, right now. Others can sense a good thing coming when it is days, months, or miles away.

Why we do what we do: that moment when you get to see the future on your computer screen before the rest of the world.

I think one of the reasons I've been successful is that I can see things before other people do. I've always been able to do it.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

Who is the wise man? He who sees what's going to be born.

I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.

Not many people give you a vision of what the future will bring.

Any 6 year old’s hindsight is better than a President’s foresight.

Hindsight is good, foresight is better; but second sight is best of all.

Many are the things that man seeing must understand. Not seeing, how shall he know what lies in the hand of time to come?

For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.

The wiser a man is, it seems to me, the more vividly he can see the future as part of the evolving present. He doesn't break the flow of life, he directs it, hastens it, but preserves its continuity.

We need people who can see straight ahead and deep into the problems. Those are the experts. But we also need peripheral vision and experts are generally not very good at providing peripheral vision.

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

I never quite trust futurists because I think they're kind of telling us what they think our future should be.

Sometimes I feel a lot of things but I keep it in. I'm sure we all have this built-in radar of what we predict and when it happens, we feel 'I knew it'.

What is required is sight and insight- then you might add one more: excite.

Use your own intuition. You are tomorrow.

I do not like the phrase: Never cross a bridge till you come to it. The world is owned by men who cross bridges on their imaginations miles and miles in advance of the procession.

Sometimes we don't see out of our peripheral vision what's coming right around the corner.

They who look but little into futurity, have, perhaps, the quickest sensation of the present.

Your shallow men shall dream, dreams, your insightful men shall see visions.

We are always looking into the future, but we see only the past.

He's started anticipating what's going to happen before it's even happened.

Better to see widely than to see too closely and allow some feature of place or situation to catch you unawares. Do you understand?