Foresight is not about predicting the future, it's about minimizing surprise. — Karl Schroeder Copy Share Image
Kim Kardashian tweeted that she is supporting President Obama in the midterm elections. I think it worked because all of the polls… — Conan O'Brien 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
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
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
One of the persistent ironies of reform is the impossibility of predicting the full consequences of change. — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
I don't always do a lot of predicting, but, when I get a really strong feeling about something, I will tell people. — Michael Johnson Copy Share Image
I think almost all strategic problems could at least be improved upon if people would do more careful game-theoretic analysis. The reason… — Bruce Bueno de Mesquita Copy Share Image
I switched to my new trainer Abel Sanchez to add versatility to my game. I'm coming to fight a serious fight. If… — Tavoris Cloud Copy Share Image
Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I've had some failures. On the other hand, I also predicted the fall of… — David Brin 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
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
Here in New York, we're media obsessed. Writers write about writers who write about writers and reporters and freelancers, and it's just… — Lauren Weisberger Copy Share Image
Nothing will ever replace the experience of wandering haphazardly through a great bookstore, no matter how many algorithms are developed to find… — Dominique Browning 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
It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment. What creates despair is the imagination,… — Andre Dubus 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
All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The greatest economic minds of the 19th century, all of them without exception, considered economic growth as a temporary necessity. When all… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Let me just say that while I personally am very fond of John Boehner, his record of predicting what would happen if… — Jay Carney Copy Share Image
It will be possible in a few more years to build radio controlled rockets which can be steered into such orbits beyond… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Mitt Romney is predicting that as president, he will create 12 million jobs in his first term. Well, President Obama says a… — Jay Leno 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
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
I am not predicting here that Obama will fail like Jimmy Carter. What I am predicting is the Republican Party is not… — Ed Rollins Copy Share Image
