Failure Quote by James E. Lovelock

“Fuck the weather forecasters and their predictions. With magic, he’d just turned their Doppler radar upside down. Sapphire Phelan (Being Familiar With a Witch)”

— Sapphire Phelan

I'm not an economist and we all know economists were created to make weather forecasters look good.

— Rupert Murdoch

“Our mental models aren’t reality. They are tools, like the models weather forecasters use to predict the weather.”

— Ed Catmull

“Our mental models aren’t reality. They are tools, like the models weather forecasters use to predict the weather. But, as we know all too…

— Ed Catmull

The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters.

— Jean-Paul Kauffmann

To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps…

— Ronald Fisher

To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may…

— Ronald Fisher

I'm not here to say what [Clintons] did wrong. I mean, there's going to be plenty of post-mortem review of what should have gone…

— Keith Ellison

The factors that laid low so whooping and puissant an empire as the old Hollywood are many. I can think of a score, including…

— Ben Hecht

Here's what I'm saying, that there is now ongoing a post-mortem review of what could have gone better [during Hillary Clinton campaign] and what…

— Keith Ellison

Social media reactions to celebrity death have taken on a predictable pattern: an outpouring of shock with expressions of grief, followed by a ghoulish…

— Jennifer Armintrout

Histhry is a post-mortem examination. It tellsye what a counthry died iv. But I'd like to know what it lived iv.

— Finley Peter Dunne