Forecasts Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

There are two kinds of forecasters: those who don’t know, and those who don’t know they don’t know.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Any thinking person is qualified to be a forecaster, and in fact, everybody does it every day.

— Paul Saffo

Pundits forecast not because they know, but because they are asked.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Never take advice from someone wearing a tie.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

When all the experts and forecasts agree, something else is going to happen

— Bob Farrell

Nobody believes a weather prediction twelve hours ahead. Now we're being asked to believe a prediction that goes out 100 years into the future?…

— Michael Crichton

If you have reason to think that yesterday's forecast went wrong, there is no glory in sticking to it.

— Nate Silver

No one can escape the iron rule that once you make a forecast, you know you're going to be wrong; you just don't know…

— Edgar Fiedler

We really can't forecast all that well, and yet we pretend that we can, but we really can't.

— Alan Greenspan

Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species; we are much better with tools and narrative storytelling.

— Barry Ritholtz

“mechanisms of weather predictions are very similar to those of climate predictions. So if we’re comfortable trusting local forecasters’ predictions about weather, we should…

— Heidi Cullen