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> [Reality looks much more obvious in hindsight than in foresight. People who experience hindsight bias misapply current hindsight to past foresight. They perceive events that occurred to have been more predictable before the fact than was actually the case.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hersh-shefrin/reality-looks-much-more-obvious-in-hindsight-than-in-foresight-people/)

[Hersh Shefrin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hersh-shefrin/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6bc/hersh-shefrin-93775_bias_reality-looks-much-more-obvious-in-hinds_124942.jpg)

> [An important task for government is to think about the future as well as to learn from the past, and the Foresight Programme, run by the Government Office for Science, helps in the development of this thinking.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-walport/an-important-task-for-government-is-to-think-about-the-future-as-well/)

[Mark Walport](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-walport/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/429/mark-walport-8347_future_an-important-task-for-government-is-to-t_1134029.jpg)

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