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
One of the persistent ironies of reform is the impossibility of predicting the full consequences of change. — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
People are disposed to mistake predicting troubles for causing troubles and even for desiring troubles. — Enoch Powell 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
I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational. — Larry Niven 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
Always expect the unexpected. The oil and gas industry is terrible at predicting anything. Always have a back-up plan. — David Dixon Copy Share Image
I don't think I've had any great success in predicting politics or social change, nor have I really tried. — Paul Krugman 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
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
We're better in the rearview mirror than we are at predicting - 'cause you're never going to be right every time. You… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
As it turns out, the scientific community has been addressing this particular question for some time now and they say that increased… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
If you want a simple model for predicting the unemployment rate in the United States over the next few years, here it… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Psychic development is not a fanatical, freaky study, predicting the future, talking to UFOs, and being able to find out curious facts… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Science is a little bit more than a wonderful way of modelling and predicting; it's a wonderful technical abstraction. I think science… — Bernard Beckett Copy Share Image
I regret very much to hear so many people, many of my own countrymen, predicting war, stating that Europe is preparing and… — Frank B. Kellogg 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
Making two possibilities a reality. Predicting the future of things we all know. Fighting off the diseased programming Of centuries, centuries, centuries,… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
Our greatest hope is for the experience of joy, and often we are not as smart as we think we are when… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Like many other touchstones of twenty-first-century pop culture, 'The Sopranos' was hatched in the late Nineties, predicting a future that never arrived.… — Rob Sheffield 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
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
You could almost say that throughout human history there are people who can either foresee consequences or who are capable of looking… — Moby 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
“After several years of channeling, [my spirit guide,] Orin told me that he wanted to teach me about the future and probably… — Sanaya Roman 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
The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular? — David Sarnoff 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