The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Future forecasting is all about testing strategies - it's like a wind tunnel. — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
Never forget this simple truism: Forecasting is marketing, plain and simple. — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
The quest for certainty in forecasting outcomes can be the enemy of progress. — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
The general public still expects a lot more forecasting accuracy than any of us can deliver. — Edgar Fiedler Copy Share Image
The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us… — Patrick Young Copy Share Image
“Weatherman says," Kev scoffed. "I wouldn't trust that silly bugger to know it's raining now.” — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
I'm an economist, I do a lot of forecasting, and I'm probably one of the most successful forecasters in terms of very… — Lyndon LaRouche Copy Share Image
Nate Silver is now forecasting Oscar winners. The only area of life in which he has no expertise, ironically, is life itself. — Norman Chad Copy Share Image
I deal in facts, not forecasting the future. That's crystal ball stuff. That doesn't work. — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
And this is one way to do technology forecasting; get a sense of where technology is, and then anticipate the next upturn. — Chris Anderson Copy Share Image
Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“In all sorts of markets—music, film, art, and politics—the future of popularity will be harder to predict as the broadcast power of… — Derek Thompson Copy Share Image
It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
“Our world is increasingly complex, often chaotic, and always fast-flowing. This makes forecasting something between tremendously difficult and actually impossible, with a… — Andrew McAfee Copy Share Image
I'm concerned with the world economy, I'm a specialist in forecasting in that area, and I have a lot of influence in… — Lyndon LaRouche Copy Share Image
I think the association of economics with forecasting is unfortunate and is down to the fact that one great way to get… — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
Forecasting is a maddening occupation. It is always fascinating and exciting and rewarding. yet it is also regularly exasperating and infuriating, occasionally… — Edgar Fiedler Copy Share Image
A forecasting game is a kind of simulation, a kind of scenario, a kind of teleconference, a kind of artifact from the… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
“When we advance more confident claims and they fail to come to fruition, this constitutes much more powerful evidence against our hypothesis.… — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
I think that intelligent forecasting (company revenues, earnings, etc.) should not seek to predict what will in fact happen in the future.… — Peter Cundill Copy Share Image
Constraint theory asks: What is the price for doing this? Now one way around constraint theory is declaring your enemy crazy. Crazy… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
Did they launch the last space shuttle yet?” – Sundown “I don’t follow.” – Ren “I’m just thinking maybe we should evacuate… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
We are convinced that the intelligent investor can derive satisfactory results from pricing of either type (market timing or fundamental analysis via… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Satellite photography in the 1970's gave rise to the long-range weather forecast, a month at a time. This in turn gave rise… — Miles Kington Copy Share Image
Auto repair, piloting, skiing, perhaps even management: these are skills that yield to application, hard work, and native talent. But forecasting an… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Now if you can recognize and memorize a grandmaster's game, and you have the respect to understand [Zimbabwean president Robert] Mugabe who… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
Aside from its importance to many branches of science, a knowledge of the oceans has a practical value for mankind. The intelligent… — Paul J. H. Schoemaker Copy Share Image
We're not very good at forecasting, and we don't know how to measure the impact of economic policy. — Edgar Fiedler Copy Share Image
Don't be forecasting evil unless it is what you can guard against. Anxiety is good for nothing if we can't turn it… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
If I have noticed anything over these 60 years on Wall Street, it is that people do not succeed in forecasting what's… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Computer modelling for weather forecasting, and indeed for climate forecasting, has reached its limits. — Piers Corbyn Copy Share Image
Investing is an activity of forecasting the yield over the life of the asset; speculation is the activity of forecasting the psychology… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The goal of forecasting is not to predict the future but to tell you what you need to know to take meaningful… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species; we are much better with tools and narrative storytelling. — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image