Predicting The Future Quotes - Page 2

• The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?

  David Sarnoff

  Silly, Creativity, Dumb

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• A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service: The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible.

  Frederick W. Smith

  Ideas, Yale, Order

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• The cinema is little more than a fad. It's canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Art, Drama, Blood

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• The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That's over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it's going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade.

  Steve Jobs

  Dark, Years, Best Job

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.39, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?

  Harry Warner

  Inspirational, Witty, Humorous

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia.

  Dionysius Lardner

  Follow Your Dreams, Aviation, Speed

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• The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We're just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people - as remarkable as the telephone.

  Steve Jobs

  Communication, Home, Compelling Reason

  "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. February 1985.

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• Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.

  Lord Kelvin

  Silly, Creativity, Science

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• Railroad carriages are pulled at the enormous speed of fifteen miles per hour by engines which, in addition to endangering life and limb of passengers, roar and snort their way through the countryside, setting fire to the crops, scaring the livestock, and frightening women and children. The Almighty certainly never intended that people should travel at such break-neck speed.

  Martin Van Buren

  Children, Fire, People

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• That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you.

  Branford Marsalis

  Believe, Jazz, Kind

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• There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable.

  John Langdon-Davies

  Energy, Atoms, Nuclear

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• I was not predicting the future, I was trying to prevent it.

  Ray Bradbury

  Trying, Predicting

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• To regard one's immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.

  Anton Chekhov

  Broken, Matter, Violin

  "Ward No. 6". Short stories by Anton Chekhov, 1892.

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• It's like when IBM drove a lot of innovation out of the computer industry before the microprocessor came along. Eventually, Microsoft will crumble because of complacency, and maybe some new things will grow. But until that happens, until there's some fundamental technology shift, it's just over.

  Steve Jobs

  Technology, Innovation, Microsoft

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.47, Prabhat Prakashan

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• You should expect little or nothing from Wall Street stock pickers who hope to be more accurate than the market in predicting the future of prices. And you should not expect much from pundits making long-term forecasts.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Wall, Long, Investing

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• Sometimes you have intuitive insight about how you think things are going to be, and you write that. Other times you fantasize completely, which has nothing to do with predicting the future.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Thinking, Sometimes

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• The greatest economic minds of the 19th century, all of them without exception, considered economic growth as a temporary necessity. When all human needs are satisfied, then we will have a stable economy, reproducing every year the same things. We will stop straining ourselves worrying about development or growth. How naïve they were! One more reason to be reluctant about predicting the future. No doubt they were wiser than me, but even they made such a mistake!

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Mistake, Years, Worry

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• I stopped predicting the future a long time ago.

  Fred Durst

  Long, Long Time, Predicting

  "Fred Durst Digs Wes Borland's New Band But Still Wants To Get Back To Bizkit" by Chris Harris, www.mtv.com. April 26, 2007.

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• Making two possibilities a reality. Predicting the future of things we all know. Fighting off the diseased programming Of centuries, centuries, centuries, centuries. Science fails to recognise the single most Potent element of human existence. Letting the reigns go to the unfoldings faith, Science has failed our world. Science has failed our mother earth.

  Serj Tankian

  Mother, Fighting, Reality

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• The desktop metaphor was invented because one, you were a stand-alone device, and two, you had to manage your own storage. That's a very big thing in a desktop world. And that may go away. You may not have to manage your own storage. You may not store much before too long.

  Steve Jobs

  Two, Long, Going Away

  "Steve Jobs: The Next Insanely Great Thing". Interview with Gary Wolf, www.wired.com. February 1, 1996.

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• If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

  Samuel Beckett

  Baseball, Goals Dreams, Yankees

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• Psychic development is not a fanatical, freaky study, predicting the future, talking to UFOs, and being able to find out curious facts that are basically irrelevant to one's time in life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Talking, Psychics, Development

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• I'll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I'll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I'm not there, but I'll always come back.

  Steve Jobs

  Years, Best Job, Apples

  "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, genius.com. February 1, 1985.

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• Team, it turned out that Michael Dell wasn't perfect at predicting the future. Based on today's stock market close, Apple is worth more than Dell. Stocks go up and down and things may be different tomorrow but I thought it was worth a moment of reflection today.

  Steve Jobs

  Team, Reflection, Apples

  "14 years later, Dell founder backtracks on Apple attack" by Mark Milian, www.cnn.com. October 18, 2011.

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• My specific goal is to revolutionize the future of the species. Mathematics is just another way of predicting the future.

  Ralph Abraham

  Goal, Way, Mathematics

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