http://www.year2000.com/y2kcassandra.html

(Posting it in full here, because I think his site is supposed to go away soon)

The Cautions of Cassandra by Peter de Jager

The day a future event is easy to predict -- it's history.

You can be forgiven of any crime, except the crime of being right when they publicly said you were wrong.

A good deed never goes unpunished.

The Pied Piper of Hamlin had the right idea -- save some of the rats.

The worst predictions, will be attributed to the most visible.

The written word is permanent but easily forgotten. The spoken word is oft misunderstood and remembered forever.

What's important is not what you said, but what they think they heard.

If you do it right, the problems you warn of today, will be unworthy of comment tomorrow.

Out of all the future troubles you see -- focus on the worst. If you're going to be hung -- be hung for the most important reason.

The stronger the form of communication, the more numerous and distorted the echoes.

It's easier to speak about what will happen in the future, than it is to figure out what was said in the past.

Integrity never had a choice -- forget the past and face the future.

Hindsight always beats a prediction, by at least 20/20.

Being blind is less of a curse.

Make what you will of these lessons learnt.

Yours truly, Peter de Jager Pdejager@year2000.com January 28, 2000

-- sweetpea (on@the.farm), January 31, 2000