Doe Quote by Paul Saffo Download Open image “Any thinking person is qualified to be a forecaster, and in fact, everybody does it every day.” — Paul Saffo ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Doe Every day Facts Persons Qualified Thinking Thinking person
There are two kinds of forecasters: those who don’t know, and those who don’t know they don’t know. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I'm an economist, I do a lot of forecasting, and I'm probably one of the most successful forecasters in terms of very specific kinds… — Lyndon LaRouche Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
Forecasts usually tell us more of the forecaster than of the forecast — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
It is not for us to forecast the future, but to shape it. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery 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
Forecasters tend to learn less and less about more and more, until in the end they know nothing about everything. — Edgar Fiedler Copy Share Image
Meteorologists don't use a script, and most create their own graphics and certainly put together their own forecasts. Most of us went to school… — Ginger Zee Copy Share Image
I'm actually an optimist about what lies ahead. Are wikis reliable? It depends on the specific business. Is Wikipedia reliable? You bet. Wikipedia is… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
The thing I see happening is that there's a real compression between generations. There used to be about 20 years difference (in technology use).… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
Never mistake a clearer view for a short distance just because the technology looks like it's about to arrive in the very near future.… — 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
Though I carry enough electronics to get nervous in a lightning storm, I love paper and I always have a Moleskine journal with me… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
I'm not sure the notion of employee or job is going to survive the transition over the next couple of decades. The very notion… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
Every day huge amounts of information break off like icebergs and melt away. What worries me is that much information in electronic form is… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
The value of a social network is defined not only by who's on it, but by who's excluded, — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
Using technology merely to lower operational costs amounts to standing on a whale fishing for minnows. It just allows you to do the old… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
When I lived in Japan in the 1980s, I once was mistaken for Paul Newman, and I didn't have much more hair than I… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
When everybody else is in a down market is focusing on what they're doing wrong, instead focus on what you should be doing differently,… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
We do need to rethink privacy. I think we need to fall back on (former Supreme Court Justice) Felix Frankfurter's definition of privacy which… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture. MARTIN LUTHER, letter to Chancellor Gregory Brück, January 13,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Sometimes a sign or a quote is simply interesting by itself and does not require anything beyond being framed on a page. — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery.… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool. — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
Nothing old is ever reborn but neither does it totally disappear. And that which has once been born, will always reappear in a new… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
One of the things the United States does well is building coalitions. What the U.S. knows is that if you don't have a coalition… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does,… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image