Prediction Quotes

Management is prediction.

— W. Edwards Deming

That's not a prediction, that's a spoiler.

— Paul Heyman

“Relying on predictions alone is dangerous.”

— Roger Spitz

Prediction is difficult, especially the future.

— Niels Bohr

Predictions are hard, especially abot the future.

— Niels Bohr

“2026: Mars is direct all year, and so are we.”

— Susan Mako

Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.

— Alan Greenspan

Foreseeing the future is always difficult.

— Antonio Conte

The general public still expects a lot more forecasting accuracy than any of us can deliver.

— Edgar Fiedler

“It became a game, a challenge, to realise the exact moment that the predictions came true.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

A rational prediction has an explanation based on theory.

— W. Edwards Deming

“Stories of prediction are often those of long-term progress but short-term regress”

— Nate Silver

It is very difficult to predict when a bond crisis could happen.

— Alan Greenspan

The hardest thing about being a communist is trying to predict the past.

— Milovan ?ilas

If I would need to make a prediction I still believe Kaplan's scenario is very plausible.

— David Korten

I'm going to make a prediction - it could go either way.

— Ron Atkinson

This is my prediction for the future: Whatever hasn't happened will happen, and no one will be safe from it.

— John B. S. Haldane

Ben Bova seems to work very hard at working in new discoveries into his Glum Future but alas, his future is glum…

— James Nicoll

“You see life is predictable. What you do with your time now will dictate how your life will become tomorrow.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“The future is the result of actions, and actions are the result of behavior, and behavior is the result of prediction.”

— David McRaney

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. It was the third of Arthur C. Clarke’s three laws of prediction.”

— Sean Chercover

If a prediction is right then it's like you only have one future. Like that future has been decided. But if it…

— Faith Barroa

Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cortex, and the foundation…

— Jeff Hawkins

The important prediction is not the automobile, but the parking problem; not radio, but the soap opera; not the income tax, but…

— Isaac Asimov

Prediction from a grown-up: Your future is going to be amazing. You will surprise yourself with what you're capable of and the…

— Hillary Clinton

They believed that prediction was just a function of keeping track of things. If you knew enough, you could predict anything. That's…

— Michael Crichton

The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment…

— Francesco Guicciardini

“However, robust evidence shows that people systematically overestimate the probability of positive future contingencies, and underestimate the probability of negative ones —…

— Daniel Nettle

“Conspiracy theory, like causality, works fantastically well as an explanatory model but only if you use it backwards. The fact that we…

— Peter J. Carroll

In order to sharpen its prediction skills, our brains constantly build models, or 'templates,' of the world. The better the template, the…

— Daphne Bavelier

There is no example of someone reading their scripture and saying, 'I have a prediction about the world that no one knows…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“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

“You know the logics setup. You got a logic in your house. It looks like a vision receiver used to, only it's…

— Murray Leinster

“Recent brain scans have shed light on how the brain simulates the future. These simulation are done mainly in the dorsolateral prefrontal…

— Michio Kaku

“The purpose of a thought-experiment, as the term was used by Schrödinger and other physicists, is not to predict the future -…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out…

— Nikola Tesla

“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

“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

“I use the example as computed by the mathematician Michael Berry. If you know a set of basic parameters concerning the ball…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“That Muhammad could predict certain events does not prove that he was a prophet: he may have been able to guess successfully,…

— Muhammad al Warraq