Ends Quote by Edgar Fiedler

There are two kinds of forecasters: those who don’t know, and those who don’t know they don’t know.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Forecasts usually tell us more of the forecaster than of the forecast

— Warren Buffett

Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.

— Warren Buffett

Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species; we are much better with tools and narrative storytelling.

— Barry Ritholtz

Forecasting is a maddening occupation. It is always fascinating and exciting and rewarding. yet it is also regularly exasperating and infuriating, occasionally even deranging.

— Edgar Fiedler

“Our knowledge does not help us to forecast the future, but it makes us more certain that our guesses are the right ones. In…

— Chris Carter

“What’s the point of making predictions if they cannot change anything? Some complex systems, such as the weather, are oblivious to our predictions. The…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Any thinking person is qualified to be a forecaster, and in fact, everybody does it every day.

— Paul Saffo

People don't realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of what causes what, but that's as far…

— Alan Greenspan

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

— Nate Silver

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

— Alan Greenspan

The key to making a good forecast is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information.

— Nate Silver