Accounts Quote by Isaac Asimov

“We produce thirty-year projections of social security deficits and oil prices without realizing that we cannot even predict these for next summer—our cumulative prediction…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I envision a future without traffic accidents or congestion. A future where everyone can use a car.

— Sebastian Thrun

Republicans look to find the future and they find radio.

— Bill Maher

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

A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.

— Frederik Pohl

Prediction is a very difficult business, particularly about the future

— Fred Singer

Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back…

— Peter Drucker

It is hard to predict the future.

— Kane Williamson

“Governments are wasting billions of dollars on attempting to predict events that are produced by interdependent systems and are therefore not statistically understandable at…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Prediction is difficult- particularly when it involves the future.

— Mark Twain

The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.

— Anonymous

Always expect the unexpected. The oil and gas industry is terrible at predicting anything. Always have a back-up plan.

— David Dixon