As Winston Churchill once complained, the future s one…
As Winston Churchill once complained, the future s one damn thing after another
— from Takeoff Into Chaos · Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious by Gerd Gigerenzer
In the book
None of this is new, and that itself is part of the lesson. Pliny said plainly that the only certainty is that nothing is certain; Churchill grumbled that the future is just one damned thing after another. Our own book of Ecclesiastes looked the same fact in the eye without flinching: one generation goes and another comes and only the earth remains; the sun rises and sets and hurries back to rise again; what has been is what will be, and there is nothing new under the sun. — Takeoff Into Chaos