I'm no good at predicting what will endure with people. I only know what speaks to me. — J. Robbins Copy Share Image
Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I'm a historian. The act of predicting the future discomfits me, in any event - and the bigger the prediction, the more… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
People who are complaining about the Fed are people who've been predicting runaway inflation for five and six years, and it hasn't… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
I don't think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the 'experiment.' — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
I never want to be in the business of predicting what the U.S. Supreme Court will do. — Neal Katyal Copy Share Image
No one is predicting that the Democrats will get the 30 pickups they need to take back the House majority. — Mara Liasson Copy Share Image
People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I'm predicting that we'll finally have a computer will search my e-mail automatically and delete every message that begins with 'thought you'd… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
I come back to the same thing: We've got the greatest pipeline in the company's history in the next 12 months, and… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
We're emphasizing the knowable by predicting how certain people and companies will swim against the current. We're not predicting the fluctuation in… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I believe there is true expertise in some endeavors, and not in others. There is obviously no such thing as expertise in… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
Every cancer looks different. Every cancer has similarities to other cancers. And we're trying to milk those differences and similarities to do… — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
You should expect little or nothing from Wall Street stock pickers who hope to be more accurate than the market in predicting… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Theater is a very changeable art. It responds to the moment in history the way the newspaper does, and there's no predicting… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
That's the thing about golf. In a team sport, when a team's on a roll, you have a little bit more data… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
In psychology, there's something called the broken-leg problem. A statistical formula may be highly successful in predicting whether or not a person… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
Markets work best when there's lots of information available and a historical track record to go on; they excel at predicting things… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
For me there's insecurity when you're releasing an album because you spend all of this time working on that one thing and… — John Legend Copy Share Image
Pardon me, not to sound elitist, but I wanted to put something together that I would enjoy. I thought at that time,… — Bill Goldberg Copy Share Image
One thing that I'm predicting is that there will be a vigorous and futile defense of suburbia and all its entitlements, no… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
This intelligence, or what I'll call "the wisdom of crowds," is at work in the world in many different guises. It's the… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Have the models been successful in predicting anything? They, of course, predict substantial global warming. This is not surprising given the expressed… — David Douglas Copy Share Image
The Cook Political Report now predicting senate democrats are poised to pick up five to seven seats, which would give them the… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
“Like, no one ever actually knows what the right thing to do is. I mean, you can think that you know what’s… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
Memorizing, guessing, looking at pictures, predicting, substituting, and skipping, are not reading; they are very bad habits. — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
One of the persistent ironies of reform is the impossibility of predicting the full consequences of change. — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
My mother always told me growing up I had a punchable face. Little did I know she was predicting my television career. — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational. — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
I won't say 'See you tomorrow' because that would be like predicting the future, and I'm pretty sure I can't do that. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Yes, people are always predicting a big breakthrough for me, but it has never happened. I don't know why, exactly. But I… — Joey Heatherton Copy Share Image
“those who are very good at predicting the past will think of themselves as good at predicting the future,” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Foresight is not about predicting the future, it's about minimizing surprise. — Karl Schroeder Copy Share Image
I've become increasingly fascinated with social media to improve on traditional ways of preparing for and predicting the future. — Noreena Hertz Copy Share Image
Experts say this global warming is serious, and they are predicting now that by the year 2050, we will be out of… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
