A Quote by Ray Bradbury

People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it.

Ray Bradbury

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Ray Bradbury
American - Writer
August 22, 1920 - June 5, 2012

People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it. Better yet, build it. Predicting the future is much too easy, anyway. You look at the people around you, the street you stand on, the visible air you breathe, and predict more of the same. To hell with more. I want better.

Ray Bradbury

Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future.

Arthur C. Clarke

The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.

Frank Herbert

You don't need to predict the future. Just choose a future -- a good future, a useful future -- and make the kind of prediction that will alter human emotions and reactions in such a way that the future you predicted will be brought about. Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.

Isaac Asimov

Five million Jews are regarding me as a traitor, but six billion people around the world think me as a hero and a good man who bring the message to all the human beings that we should survive and prevent the use of nuclear weapons and to prevent the nuclear preparations and to prevent nuclear war in the future.

Mordechai Vanunu

I'm not trying to PREDICT the future. I'm just trying to PREVENT it.

Ray Bradbury

Many people ask me about WWE and if I'd go to WWE in the future. They ask me if I'm going now. I will not go. I want to make New Japan Pro-Wrestling bigger.

Kazuchika Okada

I don't think there is such a thing as as a real prophet. You can never predict the future. We know why now, of course; chaos theory, which I got very interested in, shows you can never predict the future.

Arthur C. Clarke

If I want to speculate wildly about the future, I have my science fiction. Anybody who tells you they can predict the future is either crazy or lying.

Karl Schroeder

I can never predict my future because a big part of my future is already behind me.

Guus Hiddink

After every move, ask yourself what does my opponent want to do to me, and how can I prevent it?

Daniel Naroditsky

We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.

Bill Joy

People often say that it is easier to predict the way things are going to be 10 to 20 years in the future than to predict how it is going to be 3 years from now.

Mark Zuckerberg

What I have figured out is that I can predict the future. I just can't predict when.

Steve Case

If you want to predict the future create it.

Peter Drucker

If you really want to know about the future, don't ask a technologist, a scientist, a physicist. No! Don't ask somebody who's writing code. No, if you want to know what society's going to be like in 20 years, ask a kindergarten teacher.

Clifford Stoll

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