Time Quote by J.C. Wylie

“we cannot predict with certainty the pattern of the war for which we prepare ourselves.”

— J.C. Wylie

What is certain about the future is that even the best efforts to predict the conditions of future war will prove erroneous. What is…

— H. R. McMaster

“The only thing I cannot predict is the future”

— Amit Trivedi

“mounting a sustained war. Unhappily, these intriguing speculations”

— Charles C. Mann

“Think, too, of the great part that is played by the unpredictable in war: think of it now, before you are actually comitted to…

— Thucydides

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

— Nate Silver

Seldom, if ever, has a war ended leaving the victors with such a sense of uncertainty and fear, with such a realization that the…

— Edward R. Murrow

“Our futures are only predictable because as creatures of this world we are predictable.”

— Stephanie Garber

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

— Richard H. Thaler

“All descriptions of how near certainty is to be achieved are based primarily on emerging technologies. A Global Information Grid of “persistent surveillance” will…

— H.R. McMaster

After we have thought out everything carefully in advance and have sought and found without prejudice the most plausible plan, we must not be…

— Carl von Clausewitz

“Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.”

— Niels Bohr