The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

“Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do… The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Really smart people with reasonable funding can do just about anything that doesn’t violate too many of Newton’s Laws!”

• Alan Kay (1971) at a 1971 meeting of PARC
• ref: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/09/27/invent-the-future/?amp=1

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• In 1963, Gábor Dénes wrote [The future cannot be predicted, but the future can be invented.

@nishio: “The best way to predict the future is to create it”, I think most engineers think “Alan Kay”. I think most engineers think “Alan Kay”, but actually there are some people who think “Drucker”, and I’m wondering which one is right. @nishio: We Cannot Predict the Future, But We Can Invent It – Quote Investigator® I think that the best way to predict the future is to invent it by Alan Kay in 1983, and a slightly different expression by Gerbordinesch in 1963. @nishio: I guess someone who couldn’t pinpoint it as Gerbordinesch or Alan Kay would have said it was Drucker at random.

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