Economics is clearly a vital area of prediction for people in politics. — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
The MD is well aware that the forecasts are no good but he needs them for planning purposes ... — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
A plan is an example of what could happen, not a prediction of what will happen. — Kent Beck Copy Share Image
Once we're past 2012 I think it will be very difficult NOT to be enlightend — Carl Johan Calleman Copy Share Image
The foresight of financial experts was, as so often, a poor guide to the future. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“You couldn’t predict what was going to happen for one simple reason: people.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Prediction, not narration, is the real test of our understanding of the world. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Gambling to predict a prediction, moreover you look up words the book named diction, to define me you need (ary), so define… — Kenneth Melvin Jr Copy Share Image
It's impossible for us to forecast what's going to happen ten years from now and make a decision today to say what… — Charles Rangel Copy Share Image
“Emeritus John Farrington said, "Sometimes God's creation does not yield to scientific research without great effort and our results are not always… — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The important prediction is not the automobile, but the parking problem; not radio, but the soap opera; not the income tax, but… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cortex, and the foundation… — Jeff Hawkins Copy Share Image
The prediction I can make with the highest confidence is that the most amazing discoveries will be the ones we are not… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“In a world with amazing amounts of statistics and demographics available, If you don't utilize foresight, statistics, demographics, projections and predictions the… — Akutra-Ramses Atenosis Cea Copy Share Image
The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment… — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share Image
“However, robust evidence shows that people systematically overestimate the probability of positive future contingencies, and underestimate the probability of negative ones —… — Daniel Nettle Copy Share Image
“Conspiracy theory, like causality, works fantastically well as an explanatory model but only if you use it backwards. The fact that we… — Peter J. Carroll Copy Share Image
Only human beings can look directly at something, have all the information they need to make an accurate prediction, perhaps even momentarily… — Gavin de Becker Copy Share Image
“A brick could be used to foretell the future. Here’s my prediction: Tomorrow will happen. If I’m right, the brick was correct,… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Whatever happens, happens. I can't give you a prediction because Jim (Irsay) and I will sit down at some point and he'll… — Peyton Manning Copy Share Image
“If you were destined to be a poet, then you won't brainstorm for lines that rhymes. If you were destined to be… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
It does not matter who you are, or how smart you are, or what title you have, or how many of you… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive… Prediction is the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futurologists. It is not the business… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Science not only describes, it predicts. It deals not only with the past but with the future. Nor is prediction the last… — B.F. Skinner Copy Share Image
“And how did you know about that?” Seven looked at his watch. Chase held up a hand. “Let me guess, in two… — Adrienne Wilder Copy Share Image
“People think--wrongly--that speculative fiction is about predicting the future, but it isn’t; or if it is, it tends to do a rotten… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The gray-haired growser, who proved to be a lawyer, had made it clear how much he loathed the people who were, in… — John Brunner Copy Share Image
“There are at the present time two great nations in the world, which started from different points, but seem to tend towards… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The general public still expects a lot more forecasting accuracy than any of us can deliver. — Edgar Fiedler Copy Share Image
“It became a game, a challenge, to realise the exact moment that the predictions came true.” — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“Stories of prediction are often those of long-term progress but short-term regress” — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
The hardest thing about being a communist is trying to predict the past. — Milovan ?ilas Copy Share Image
If I would need to make a prediction I still believe Kaplan's scenario is very plausible. — David Korten Copy Share Image
The one prediction that never comes true is, 'You'll thank me for telling you this. — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
It is very hard to perceive the future on a regular basis simply because the future changes. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
