Once we're past 2012 I think it will be very difficult NOT to be enlightend — Carl Johan Calleman Copy Share Image
Economics is clearly a vital area of prediction for people in politics. — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
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
The foresight of financial experts was, as so often, a poor guide to the future. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
We need to stop, and admit it: we have a prediction problem. We love to predict thingsand we arent very good at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The prediction I can make with the highest confidence is that the most amazing discoveries will be the ones we are not… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“In a world with amazing amounts of statistics and demographics available, If you don't utilize foresight, statistics, demographics, projections and predictions the… — Akutra-Ramses Atenosis Cea Copy Share Image
“«“Looks like your sci-fi prediction came true right away, Xavier.” “That can be gratifying,” mused the novelist. “But not all the time.”»” — Bruce Sterling 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
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
Nobody wants a prediction that the future will be more or less like the present, even if that is, statistically speaking, an… — Nathan Myhrvold 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
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
“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
The Fifties and Sixties were years of unreal optimism about weather forecasting. Newspapers and magazines were filled with hope for weather science,… — James Gleick 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
There is no justifiable prediction about how the hypothesis will hold up in the future; its degree of corroboration simply is a… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
The weather doesn't respect political or geographic boundaries: we're all living under the same sky. And so weather prediction has been a… — Hannah Fry 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
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
“It sounds like a fairy-tale, but not only that; this story of what man by his science and practical inventions has achieved… — Sigmund Freud 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
“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
“There are at the present time two great nations in the world, which started from different points, but seem to tend towards… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“And how did you know about that?” Seven looked at his watch. Chase held up a hand. “Let me guess, in two… — Adrienne Wilder Copy Share Image
“People think--wrongly--that speculative fiction is about predicting the future, but it isn’t; or if it is, it tends to do a rotten… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The gray-haired growser, who proved to be a lawyer, had made it clear how much he loathed the people who were, in… — John Brunner Copy Share Image
“You couldn’t predict what was going to happen for one simple reason: people.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image