Forecast Quote by Nate Silver Download Open image “You don't want to influence the same system you are trying to forecast.” — Nate Silver ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Forecast Forecasts Influence Same System Trying Want You
The key to making a good forecast is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information. — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
We really can't forecast all that well, and yet we pretend that we can, but we really can't. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
I deal in facts, not forecasting the future. That's crystal ball stuff. That doesn't work. — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
It is not for us to forecast the future, but to shape it. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
One of the soundest rules to remember when making forecasts in the field of economics is that whatever is to happen is happening already. — Sylvia Porter Copy Share Image
Any thinking person is qualified to be a forecaster, and in fact, everybody does it every day. — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
The goal of forecasting is not to predict the future but to tell you what you need to know to take meaningful action in… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
Finding patterns is easy in any kind of data-rich environment; that's what mediocre gamblers do. The key is in determining whether the patterns represent… — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
Not only does political coverage often lose the signal—it frequently accentuates the noise. — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
“These partisan beliefs can upset the equation in which more information will bring us closer to the truth. A recent study in Nature found… — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are. — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
“But forecasters often resist considering these out-of-sample problems. When we expand our sample to include events further apart from us in time and space,… — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right. — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
Well, you know, you're not going to have 86 percent of Congress voted out of office. — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
The quest for certainty in forecasting outcomes can be the enemy of progress. — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
To be a very, very minor, eighth-tier celebrity, you realize, 'Hey, celebrities are just like us.' — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
“Vision is the foresight or forecast or insight into the future. Vision is the picture of one's destiny or accomplishment, or simply what a… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“Cultural products will spread faster and wider when everybody can see what everybody else is doing. It suggests that the future of many hit-making… — Derek Thompson Copy Share Image
Some things, like the orbits of the planets, can be calculated far into the future. But that's atypical. In most contexts, there is a… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Whenever I see a forecast written out to two decimal places, I cannot help but wonder if there is a misunderstanding of the limitations… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
“I nee to reason for a plague, ... As far as I know no comets or eclipses have been forecast, and our sins are… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
Dad loved computer games, and I would sit beside him for hours with graph paper, drawing out plans to try and forecast the moves… — Rhianna Pratchett Copy Share Image
Economists have allowed themselves to walk into a trap where we say we can forecast, but no serious economist thinks we can. — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
The future will be less predictable, forecast rises will shrink, company lifetimes will shrink, new entrants will proliferate and it's going to just get… — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
“Interviews were invented to make journalism less passive. Instead of waiting for something to happen, journalists ask someone what should or could happen.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“The forecast is we kiss goodbye and never hello all kisses are then parting kisses” — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
