Always wrong Quote by Jane Jacobs

People should be highly sceptical of anyone's including their own, ability to predict the future, and instead pursue strategies that can survive whatever may…

— Seth Klarman

“people often make correct predictions on the basis of erroneous beliefs and defective prediction strategies.”

— Lee Ross

“those who are very good at predicting the past will think of themselves as good at predicting the future,”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.

— Lao Tzu

“Choices whose outcomes matter even though they are neither deterministic nor completely random surround us all the time. So it is not surprising that…

— David Christian

When something happens people didn't predict, they find ways to explain it as if it were predictable.

— Michael Lewis

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

No one predicts the future. No one tries to.

— Bruce Willis

I am incredibly bad at predicting the future; I am only smart enough to observe the present and listen to my intuition about tendencies.

— Rem Koolhaas

People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it. Better yet, build it. Predicting the future is…

— Ray Bradbury

“There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell them. As the great philosopher of uncertainty Yogi berra once said,…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.

— Freeman Dyson