Prediction, not narration, is the real test of our understanding of the world. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I’m cocky in prediction, I’m confident in preparation, but I am always humble in victory or defeat. — Conor McGregor Copy Share Image
“All predictions are wrong, that's one of the few certainties granted to mankind.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the conquest of the air is the only major task for our generation. — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Any believable prediction will be wrong. Any correct prediction will be unbelievable. — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
Ships and sails proper for the heavenly air should be fashioned. Then there will also be people, who do not shrink from… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false. — M. H. Abrams Copy Share Image
“Burning bridges behind you is understandable. It's the bridges before us that we burn, not realizing we may need to cross, that… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
I never try to make any far-reaching predictions, so much can happen that it simply only makes you look stupid a few… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
I have learned not to do predictions. It's not helpful, psychologically. I don't sit and fret about things. — Mumia Abu-Jamal Copy Share Image
Here’s my prediction: Ninety percent of what everyone will drink will be red wine, and one of the biggest markets will be… — Kevin Zraly Copy Share Image
Any astronomer can predict with absolute accuracy just where every star in the universe will be at 11.30 tonight. He can make… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Having established that good ideas do indeed come in from the cold, start on the fringes and become mainstream, can we make… — Nigel Farage Copy Share Image
I had no need of sails to drive me, nor oars nor wheels to push me, nor rails to give me a… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
President Bush is now focusing on jobs. I think the one job he's focusing most on is his own. The White House… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
The first real air-liner, carrying some five or six hundred passengers, will probably appear after or towards the end of the battle… — Oliver Stewart Copy Share Image
Many, and some of the most pressing, of our terrestrial problems can be solved only by going into space. Long before it… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Some of the most wonderful aspects and consequences of evolution have been discovered only recently. This is in stark contrast to creationism,… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
Railroad carriages are pulled at the enormous speed of fifteen miles per hour by engines which, in addition to endangering life and… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
Predictions are preposterous. What usually happens is that people tell you that what they'd like to see happen instead of what they… — Jackie Mason Copy Share Image
I've been doing lot of work, and hopefully will bring it to fruition in a way people can see it, really understanding… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
Every age has its dreams, its symbols of romance. Past generations were moved by the graceful power of the great windjammers, by… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
For the last 250 years or so, secularists have waited patiently for the fulfilment of their prediction that religion would die out… — Daniel Taylor Copy Share Image
To know whether you can trust a particular intuitive judgment, there are two questions you should ask: Is the environment in which… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
We spend a lot of time and effort trying to figure out who's going to be a good NFL quarterback, and we… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The fact that these scientific theories have a fine track record of successful prediction and explanation speaks for itself. (Which is not… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
The leviathan state, that monster devouring civilization in this century, is in the throes of death. This is not a wish or… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
Possibly everyone will travel by air in another fifty years. I'm not sure I like the idea of millions of planes flying… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
A planet is the cradle of mind, but one cannot live in a cradle forever. — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Copy Share Image
I don't read, much less follow, the valuations or predictions. I study the numbers. — John Neff 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
I don't know anything about politics. I wouldn't put too much into my prediction on politics. — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
