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The future ain't what it used to be.
The future ain't what it used to be.
Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by read more
Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by looking in the rearview mirror.
Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.
Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.
We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in read more
We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.
With mortal crisis doth portend,
My days to appropinque an end.
With mortal crisis doth portend,
My days to appropinque an end.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
There was the Door to which I found no key;
There was the Veil through which I might not read more
There was the Door to which I found no key;
There was the Veil through which I might not see.
Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind read more
Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.
A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness.
[Lat., Prudens futuri temporis exitum
Caliginosa nocte premit read more
A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness.
[Lat., Prudens futuri temporis exitum
Caliginosa nocte premit deus.]
