“The future is a trickster rabbit, full of surprises. Only the past is predictable.”
“If you can predict the future, you can change the past.”
“I believe the only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.”
“If the past, by bringing surprises, did not resemble the past previous to it (what I call the past's past), then why should our future resemble our current past?”
“People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.”
“The realization that you can't predict the future -- and mold it -- could only come as a shock to an academic.”