Quote by China Miéville

“Histories, chronologies and almanacs offer us the illusion of progress, even though, over and over again, we are given proof that there is no…

— Alberto Manguel

“Precise forecasts masquerade as accurate ones, and some of us get fooled and double-down our bets.”

— Nate Silver

“It's the minute fanaticism and superiority of the Almanach that offends: the chilling and narrowing of the kinship tie into something denatured and artificial.”

— Christopher Hitchens

“predictions can’t vary more than the thing being forecast.”

— Richard H. Thaler

“Many past mistakes paves the road to future discoveries.”

— Steven Magee

“Historians predict the past for a living.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Predictions are just good guesses or stories for the gullible.”

— Wynne Channing

“Once in a while, however, the future turns out to be very different from the past. It’s at these times that accurate forecasts would…

— Howard Marks

“people often make correct predictions on the basis of erroneous beliefs and defective prediction strategies.”

— Lee Ross

“history’s just old news, prophecy that’s well past its sell-by date.”

— Mark Lawrence

“Built into bad news is that sense of profound disbelief. The mind struggles to absorb the bare facts, defending itself against the larger implications.”

— Sue Grafton

“A lot of what people did and said when they "predicted" things, Morey now realized, was phony: pretending to know things rather than actually…

— Michael Lewis