The MD is well aware that the forecasts are no good but he needs them for planning purposes ... — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
A plan is an example of what could happen, not a prediction of what will happen. — Kent Beck Copy Share Image
Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10. — Neil Armstrong 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
A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted… — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
“In human relations, all prediction is connected in one way or another with the phenomenon of trust.” — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
For me to sit down here, even as a Nobel Laureate and make a prediction about which science I think that will… — Ahmed H. Zewail Copy Share Image
The consequences of our actions are so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed_Albus Dumbledore. — JK Rowling Copy Share Image
To understand the difficulty of predicting the next 100 years, we have to appreciate the difficulty that the people of 1900 had… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
It's impossible for us to forecast what's going to happen ten years from now and make a decision today to say what… — Charles Rangel Copy Share Image
I worry that track is going to enter into an impossibly complicated stage, where our understanding of the complexities of human physiology… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“Your guess [about the future of technology] is as good as mine. The only thing I'm sure of is (a) most of… — Steve Krug Copy Share Image
“It takes a huge investment in introspection to learn that the thirty or more hours spent “studying” the news last month neither… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I make a prediction here and now, and, my friends, I want you to watch the proceedings of Congress in these coming… — Richard Parks Bland Copy Share Image
“Cultural products will spread faster and wider when everybody can see what everybody else is doing. It suggests that the future of… — Derek Thompson Copy Share Image
“Someday, with the right man in the White House, there will be a Department of Jesus, yes and a Secretary of Jesus.…… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
In order to sharpen its prediction skills, our brains constantly build models, or 'templates,' of the world. The better the template, the… — Daphne Bavelier Copy Share Image
Predictions of the future are never anything but projections of present automatic processes and procedures, that is, of occurrences that are likely… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“She gave a little sob deep in her throat. 'Call it a prophecy, call it a prediction, call it fate - call… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
“In a drawl so low, it seemed to suspend time, the old man said, "When the last leaf falls from the Widow's… — Alex Bledsoe Copy Share Image
Should the research worker of the future discover some means of releasing this [atomic] energy in a form which could be employed,… — Francis William Aston Copy Share Image
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“I remember when we found the first population of living Cerion agassizi in central Eleuthera. Our hypothesis of Cerion's general pattern required… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“The predicted USA aurora was a bust! The solar radiation definitely arrived, as people had strange fatigue and pains in Oregon, USA… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“The present writer had occasion, some time ago, to call attention to the succession of layers of "laws of nature," each layer… — Eugene Wigner Copy Share Image