In conditions of great uncertainty people tend to predict the events that they want to happen actually will happen.
—Roberta Wohlstetter
Topics: Foresight
After an event, a signal is always crystal clear; we can now see what disaster it was signaling since the disaster has occurred. Before the event, it is obscure and pregnant with conflicting meanings.
—Roberta Wohlstetter
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- Hans Morgenthau American Political Scientist
- Milton Friedman American Economist
- Ursula K. Le Guin Science-fiction writer
- George F. Kennan American Diplomat, Historian
- Muriel Rukeyser American Poet
- Helen Keller American Author
- Robert Andrews Millikan American Physicist
- Edward Teller American Nuclear Physicist
- Friedrich Hayek British Economist, Social Philosopher
- John Hope Franklin American Historian
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