Prediction, not narration, is the real test of our understanding of the world. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The art of prophecy is very difficult, especially with respect to the future. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Any believable prediction will be wrong. Any correct prediction will be unbelievable. — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
The future is better dealt with using assumptions than forecasts. — Russell L. Ackoff Copy Share Image
We have the same problem as everyone else: It's very hard to predict the future. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Forecasting is a maddening occupation. It is always fascinating and exciting and rewarding. yet it is also regularly exasperating and infuriating, occasionally… — Edgar Fiedler Copy Share Image
Gambling to predict a prediction, moreover you look up words the book named diction, to define me you need (ary), so define… — Kenneth Melvin Jr Copy Share Image
Till facts are grouped & called there can be no prediction. The only advantage of discovering laws is to foretell what will… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“It is difficult and even dangerous to make predictions—especially about the future—of the bilateral relationship.” — Patrick Mendis Copy Share Image
The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed. — Anonymous 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
“Emeritus John Farrington said, "Sometimes God's creation does not yield to scientific research without great effort and our results are not always… — Lailah Gifty Akita 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
“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
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
The basic trouble with all long-range population projections is that they are driven by assumptions about birth levels - and there is… — Nicholas Eberstadt Copy Share Image
Whenever you try to pick market tops and bottoms, you are making a prediction. Guessing what stock is going to outperform the… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
You look at these past predictions like there's only a market in the world for five computers [as allegedly said by IBM… — Geoffrey Hinton Copy Share Image
You don't need to predict the future. Just choose a future -- a good future, a useful future -- and make the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling… — Maurice Saatchi Copy Share Image
“But does this imply the bizzare prediction that you can substitute one sense for another? In the other words, if you took… — David Eagleman 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
Science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive… Prediction is the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futurologists. It is not the business… — Ursula K. Le Guin 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
“Science not only describes, it predicts. It deals not only with the past but with the future. Nor is prediction the last… — B.F. Skinner Copy Share Image
“Simply put, the representation of events in the media does not track their frequency in the world. As sociologist Barry Glassner notes,… — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
We don't gaze into a crystal ball. I do not believe that we predict things. I think political science is bad at… — Ian Bremmer Copy Share Image
A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art. — Wendy Carlos Copy Share Image
“The future is like a corridor into which we can see only by the light coming from behind.” — Edward Weyer Jr Copy Share Image
Prediction by analogy -creativity - is so pervasive we normally don't notice it. — Jeff Hawkins Copy Share Image
“Some prediction change the people they think about the world and some make them bigotry.” — Shesh Nath Vernwal Copy Share Image
The willingness to become something in life is a prediction to your success. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
“Just because a prediction is true, doesn't mean that it is not false.” — Lionel Suggs 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 the predictions I hear are almost certainly wrong, and (b) the things that will turn out to be important will come as a surprise, even though in hindsight they'll seem perfectly obvious.” quote by Steve Krug](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5e4/steve-krug-24838_technology_your-guess-about-the-future-of-technolog_1236191.jpg)
![“You look at these past predictions like there's only a market in the world for five computers [as allegedly said by IBM founder Thomas Watson] and you realize it's not a good idea to predict too far into the future.” quote by Geoffrey Hinton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/877/geoffrey-hinton-12991_computer_you-look-at-these-past-predictions-like_2178671.jpg)
