The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Creating something new is the most effective way to know what comes next.
- In plain terms
- Make things to know what happens later.
- What can you take from it?
- Build to understand the future.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What can you create today?
Another view
Prediction sometimes requires analysis over creation.
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