Predicting the future Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“If you can predict the future, you can change the past.”

— Jarod Kintz

“But though predictions may be wrong, they are right about the people who voice them, not about their future but about their experience of…

— Milan Kundera

Instead of reflecting on the past, predict the future.

— Chris Guillebeau

The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.

— Daniel Kahneman

“The past doesn't predict your future.”

— Courtney Styba

“Historians predict the past for a living.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Sometimes people have to compensate for the past, forgetting about the future.”

— Alen Sargsyan

I am incredibly bad at predicting the future; I am only smart enough to observe the present and listen to my intuition about tendencies.

— Rem Koolhaas

“Once in a while, however, the future turns out to be very different from the past. It’s at these times that accurate forecasts would…

— Howard Marks

“An easily explainable past gives the illusion of an easily predictable future.”

— Sumoreads

“I believe the only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

“As the wind blows, people will change their ideas about the future and reminisce about the past that once was.”

— Anthony T. Hincks