Agree Quote by Bob Farrell

One of the soundest rules to remember when making forecasts in the field of economics is that whatever is to happen is happening already.

— Sylvia Porter

We really can't forecast all that well, and yet we pretend that we can, but we really can't.

— Alan Greenspan

Predictions are preposterous. What usually happens is that people tell you that what they'd like to see happen instead of what they really think…

— Jackie Mason

A general rule: if enough people predict something, it won't happen.

— J. G. Ballard

The quest for certainty in forecasting outcomes can be the enemy of progress.

— Nate Silver

One of the things that I think we have learned is that we should all be very careful about making predictions about the future.

— William J. Clinton

We can not predict what will happen tomorrow, but we can prepare ourselves to face it.

— Ophelia Callens

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

— Francesco Guicciardini

It is not for us to forecast the future, but to shape it.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The more unpredictable the world is the more we rely on predictions.

— Steve Rivkin

Any believable prediction will be wrong. Any correct prediction will be unbelievable.

— Kevin Kelly

Pundits forecast not because they know, but because they are asked.

— John Kenneth Galbraith