Amy Webb Quotes

United States, Author
1974

Amy Webb is an American futurist, author and founder and CEO of the Future Today Institute. She is professor of strategic foresight at New York University's Stern School of Business, and was a 2014-15 Visiting Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.

Also known as Founder

It’s the future-fallacy trap: when your inflexibility on details causes mistakes in your planning for the future.

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- Mistakes
- Planning
- Trap
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it is hitched to everything else in the universe.

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Make a list. Score your dates. Market yourself wisely. Find your needle.

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- Market
- List
- Dates
We’ve made a devil’s pact, swapping convenience and efficiency for an ever-increasing tyranny of information and choice.

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- Choice
- Tyranny
- Pact
Information overload hampers our ability to understand novelty when we see it.

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Exposure to more information tends to confuse rather than inform us.

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If you want true love and a long-lasting marriage, you need to start by figuring out what makes you happy.

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- Happy
- Need
- Makes
The goal of online dating is to get offline as quickly as possible.

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- Goal
- Dating
- Offline

Our existing trends inspire new thinking at the fringe, which is why it is essential that you always return back to where you started.

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- Inspire
- Return
- Started
While we cannot guarantee that we shall one day be first, we can guarantee that any failure to make this effort will make us last.

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- Effort
- Failure
- Guarantee