With the... symbolic memory we spell out the future—not one but many futures, which we weigh one against another. - Jacob Bronowski

[To Esau] Jacob would reply: "My brother, there are two worlds before us, this world and the world to come. In this world, men eat and drink, and traffic and marry, and bring up sons and daughters, but all this does not take place in the world to come. If it please thee, do thou take this world, and I will take the other."

A good prediction is one which defines its area of uncertainty; a bad prediction ignores it.

At bottom, we have remain individually too greedy to distribute our surplus, and collectively too stupid to pile it up in any more useful form than the traditional mountains of arms.