Anna Quote by Scarlett Thomas

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

I like a book better if I can't predict what's going to happen.

— Rudy Rucker

Science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive.... Prediction is the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futurologists. It is not the business of novelists.…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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

— Michael Lewis

I don't think of myself predicting things. I'm expressing possibilities. Things that could happen. To a large extent it's a question of how badly…

— Freeman Dyson

I like predictability because I know what I'm getting into.

— Katherine Heigl

You can never properly predict the future as it really turns out. So you are doing something a little different when you write science…

— Anonymous

It's been predictable, in the sense of 'expect the unexpected'.

— John McEnroe

I don't really try to predict what can and will happen with things. Sometimes you think something's gonna be a huge success, and it…

— Donna Summer

Things happen in a way that surprises. That's why I'm reluctant to predict. You cannot predict.

— Amira Hass

The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.

— Frank Herbert

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

— Wynne Channing