Adequate Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Don't be forecasting evil unless it is what you can guard against. Anxiety is good for nothing if we can't turn it into a…

— Bruce Lee

Forecasting is a maddening occupation. It is always fascinating and exciting and rewarding. yet it is also regularly exasperating and infuriating, occasionally even deranging.

— Edgar Fiedler

Anticipating problems and figuring out how to solve them is actually the opposite of worrying: it's productive.

— Chris Hadfield

Economists have allowed themselves to walk into a trap where we say we can forecast, but no serious economist thinks we can.

— Tim Harford

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

— Nate Silver

... we know that productivity suffers when uncertainty is high. But we've failed to realize the equally destructive effects of too little anxiety. ...…

— Judith M Bardwick

The future is better dealt with using assumptions than forecasts.

— Russell L. Ackoff

We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.

— Abraham Lincoln

“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

The Doomsayers have always had their uses, since they trigger the coping mechanism that often prevents the events they forecast.

— Walter Wriston

“Hundreds of studies confirm that human forecasts are flawed and biased. Human decision making is not so great either. Again to take just one…

— Richard H. Thaler

The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it

— Carl Sagan