1. “Trying to predict the future based on research is like trying to drive a car by looking in the rear-view mirror.” (Marshall McLuhan)

2. “Prediction by analogy – creativity – is so pervasive we normally don’t notice it.” (Jeff Hawkins)

3. “Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.” (Niels Bohr)

4. “The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.” (Milton Friedman)

5. “Economists give their predictions to a digit after the decimal point to show that they have a sense of humor.” (Anon)

Borrowed with pride from all over the place.

1. “Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.” (Hermann Hesse)

2. “The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

3. “Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.” (Rollo May)

4. “Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.” (George Santayana)

5. “Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.” (Niels Bohr)

Borrowed with Pride from all over the place.