Influence Quote by Robin Sloan

Predictions are preposterous. What usually happens is that people tell you that what they'd like to see happen instead of what they really think…

— Jackie Mason

A prediction is a prediction because it's predictable.

— Robert Kiyosaki

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

— Michael Lewis

Predictions are uttered by prophets (free of charge); by clairvoyants (who usually charge a fee, and are therefore more honored in their day than…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

... a fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence.

— Saul Bellow

They believed that prediction was just a function of keeping track of things. If you knew enough, you could predict anything. That's been cherished…

— Michael Crichton

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

— Lao Tzu

“Predictions are just good guesses or stories for the gullible.”

— Wynne Channing

“Predictions often give us an illusion of control in situations that are inherently out of our control. Nothing exemplifies this better than our relationship…

— Heidi Cullen

It is not predictions but plans that make the future. If you want predictions, it is because you do not have the ability to…

— Jaggi Vasudev

Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cortex, and the foundation of intelligence.

— Jeff Hawkins

Prediction is structurally inseparable from the business of punditry: It creates the essential image of indefatigable authority that is punditry's very architecture; it flows…

— Rick Perlstein