If Nostradamus was so great at predicting the future, then why is it that no one knows what he predicted until after it happens?

If it doesn't happen then you don't know.

Even a stopped clock is precisely accurate twice a day.

That's only true if it's analog.

I stand minimally corrected......

Yes, but neither has been an acceptable answer, IMHO.

Because the rear view mirror is the only place one can be sure about the map.

Ah yes, good old Nostradamus, ranks right in with the other 'seers';

"The telephone has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication.”
Western Union internal memo, 1876

"Drill for Oil? You mean drill in the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy."
Response reported by Edwin Drake as he tried to hire workmen who knew oil just bubbled out of the ground, 1895

"Everything that can be invented has been invented.”
Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899

"The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys."


Sir William Preece, chief engineer of the British Post Office, 1876

"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value."
Marshal Ferdinand Foch (who become the supreme allied commander in World War I

"The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?
David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.

“Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?"
H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1949

"I have travelled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year."
Editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957

"There is no reason in the world anyone would want a computer in their home. No reason.”
Ken Olsen, Chairman, DEC, 1977

"We don't like their sound and guitar music is on the way out."
Decca records rejects the Beatles, 1962

"640K of RAM ought to be enough for anybody.”
Bill Gates, 1981