On Sun, Jan 1, 2017 at 10:38 AM, Georgi Guninski
   <[1]guninski@guninski.com> wrote:

     Niels Bohr allegedly said "Predictions are difficult, especially
     about
     the future".
     Do you have predictions about 2017?
     Being certified optimist, I predict fuckups, fuckups and more
     fuckups.

   "The best way to predict the future is to create it."
   I love this old saying, but I don't know who said or wrote it first.  I
   ​searched a little bit just to quote it correctly and found this link:
   ​
   [2]http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/09/27/invent-the-future/
   I ​
   loved this
   ​similar ​
   version:
   "The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented."
   ​Well, there will certainly be "fuckups, fuckups and more fuckups", but
   ​
   "
   ​f​
   utures can be invented"
   ​!​
   ​  :D
   PS:  - Sorry, it's a OT joke, but it has 'cypherpunk charm'!  ;)
   How many conspiracy theorists does it take to screw in a light bulb?

   We may never know the truth.
   ​..  ​

References

   1. mailto:guninski@guninski.com
   2. http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/09/27/invent-the-future/