Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow

"It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future". Nice one. But who said it? 'That great baseball-playing philosopher, Yogi Berra', according to The Economist a couple of weeks ago.

Just a moment though - here's the latest issue of The Economist, attributing it this time to Sam Goldwyn.

I always thought it originated from Niels Bohr, the Danish physicist. At least it would have had some relevance to his work with quantum mechanics.

It turns out that the quote has been attributed to at least a couple of dozen people. See
http://www.larry.denenberg.com/predictions.html

I'm confident that more claimants will keep popping up.

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