Most successful pundits are selected for being opinionated, because it's interesting, and the penalties for incorrect predictions are negligible. You can make… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
The distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
I won this poll thing in England about predictions, and it was all these journalists and reporters trying to say that I… — Corinne Bailey Rae Copy Share Image
It may happen that small differences in the initial conditions produce very great ones in the final phenomena. A small error in… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
If you go by other people's opinions or predictions, you'll just end up talking yourself out of something. If you're running down… — Carl Lewis Copy Share Image
Now my playmates never failed to wink and smile mockingly at me when one of them called 'Man flies!' for at the… — Alberto Santos-Dumont Copy Share Image
Although humans today remain more capable than machines for many tasks, by 2030 machine capabilities will have increased to the point that… — Werner J. A. Dahm Copy Share Image
There will be a new industry, and we are just now in the beginning. I will predict that in twelve or fifteen… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
The aeroplane. . . is not capable of unlimited magnification. It is not likely that it will ever carry more than five… — Waldemar Kaempffert Copy Share Image
Letters to the editors of English and American newspapers often contain expressions of horror about the new terms that creep into the… — Peter Farb Copy Share Image
Nothing will stop us. The road to the stars is steep and dangerous. But we're not afraid . . . Space flights… — Yuri Gagarin Copy Share Image
We made it. Despite the fear and predictions of doom. We made it. Even though there were days when we were tired… — Ron Atchison Copy Share Image
The machine may even carry mail is special cases. But the useful load will be very small. The machines will eventually be… — Octave Chanute Copy Share Image
I couldn't tell fact from fiction, Or if the dream was true My only sure prediction In this world was you. I'd… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Witness this new-made world, another Heav'n From Heaven Gate not farr, founded in view On the clear Hyaline, the Glassie Sea; Of… — John Milton Copy Share Image
You look at these past predictions like there's only a market in the world for five computers [as allegedly said by IBM… — Geoffrey Hinton Copy Share Image
Let me state what the official IPCC prediction is: Sea levels could go up as much as three-quarters of a meter in… — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
As the Olympic torch neared Lake Placid, N.Y., in 1980, signaling the opening of that year's Winter Olympics, newspapers and magazines throughout… — Don Yaeger Copy Share Image
But we must admit the possibility that continued investigation and experience will bring us ever nearer to that solemn moment, when the… — Otto Lilienthal Copy Share Image
[I predict] the electricity generated by water power is the only thing that is going to keep future generations from freezing. Now… — Charles Proteus Steinmetz Copy Share Image
A scientist naturally and inevitably ... mulls over the data and guesses at a solution. He proceeds to testing of the guess… — Edwin Powell Hubble Copy Share Image
We will eventually build space science labs and hotels, prodding the capability for missions beyond the orbit of the Earth. Our space-hotel… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
The book known by the name of the Apocalypse, has seemed to be until now unintelligible, merely because people persisted to see… — Charles-Francois Dupuis Copy Share Image
I try not to make predictions, things happen when they are supposed to happen. 'Im 19. I should be in college, I… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
Whenever you try to pick market tops and bottoms, you are making a prediction. Guessing what stock is going to outperform the… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
I’ve been doing this a long time, and I’ve come to learn that predictions don’t mean much. Too much lies outside the… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“SUBJECT: FALSE PREDICTIONS RE: STUMBLER Classified by DCM Frank Ingersoll for reasons 1.4 (c) and (d). ¶1. (C) Summary and Key points:… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
the truth and value of a theory does not depend on the number of people who are interested in it - otherwise… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I say, technically, I don't think anyone in the world knows how to do such a thing. and I feel confident it… — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image
You don't need to predict the future. Just choose a future -- a good future, a useful future -- and make the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Development of the space station is as inevitable as the rising of the sun; man has already poked his nose into space… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling… — Maurice Saatchi Copy Share Image
I believe, sir, in all the progress. Air navigation is the result of the oceanic navigation: from water the human has to… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“most importantly, this prediction is less of a prophecy and more a way of discussing our present choices. If the discussion makes… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
My friends they were dancing here in the streets of Huntsville when our first satellite orbited the Earth. They were dancing again… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
All those predictions about how much economic growth will be created by this, all of those new jobs, would be created by… — Anthony Weiner Copy Share Image
“I knew by the signs it would be a hard winter. The hollies bore a heavy crop of berries and birds stripped… — Sarah Micklem Copy Share Image
When you have a perfect free market, it's difficult to predict the future. But when you have a market that is disturbed… — Marc Faber Copy Share Image
Because of recent improvements in the accuracy of theoretical predictions based on large scale ab initio quantum mechanical calculations, meaningful comparisons between… — Yuan T. Lee Copy Share Image
![“You look at these past predictions like there's only a market in the world for five computers [as allegedly said by IBM founder Thomas Watson] and you realize it's not a good idea to predict too far into the future.” quote by Geoffrey Hinton](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/877/geoffrey-hinton-12991_computer_you-look-at-these-past-predictions-like_2178671.jpg)
![“[I predict] the electricity generated by water power is the only thing that is going to keep future generations from freezing. Now we use coal whenever we produce electric power by steam engine, but there will be a time when there'll be no more coal to use. That time is not in the very distant…” quote by Charles Proteus Steinmetz](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/6f3/charles-proteus-steinmetz-2577_available_i-predict-the-electricity-generated-by-w_1873352.jpg)
