Consequence Quote by Edward Teller

“Relying on predictions alone is dangerous.”

— Roger Spitz

“This idea that in order to make a decision you need to focus on the consequences (which you can know) rather than the probability…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The future is inherently uncertain.

— Manmohan Singh

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

Deciding under uncertainty is bad enough, but deciding under an illusion of certainty is catastrophic.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

The idea of trying to predict what people will or won't respond to is risky.

— James Vincent McMorrow

The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented.

— Dennis Gabor

The problem with certainty is that it is static; it can do little but endlessly reassert itself. Uncertainty, by contrast, is full of unknowns,…

— Stephen Batchelor

The only certainty is uncertainty

— Pliny the Elder

Can you predict the future with absolute certainty? Your answer must be no. You have two options: You can either decide to accept yourself…

— David D. Burns

“Making specific forecasts in uncertain situations was, is, and will always be problematic and often misleading. This lesson stands today. The bigger the potentially…

— Bryan Norcross

“Risk is the stuff that sucks the predictability right out of the very things that we desperately wish were predictable.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough