Learning Quote by Steven Kotler

“people often make correct predictions on the basis of erroneous beliefs and defective prediction strategies.”

— Lee Ross

“There is no possibility I have made a mistake. Everything that happens as a result of my actions is one of calculation and certainty.…

— Adolf Hitler

“All predictions are wrong, that's one of the few certainties granted to mankind.”

— Milan Kundera

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

— Wynne Channing

“Prediction and explanation are exactly symmetrical. Explanations are, in effect, predictions about what has happened; predictions are explanations about what's going to happen.”

— John Rogers Searle

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

— Michael Lewis

“if we try to read it as prediction of how that judgment will occur we turn it into a confused muddle and miss its…

— Richard Bauckham

“Relying on predictions alone is dangerous.”

— Roger Spitz

“The Professor never really seemed to care whether we figured out the right answer to a problem. He preferred our wild, desperate guesses to…

— Yoko Ogawa

“The reliance on the heuristic caused predictable biases (systematic errors) in their predictions.”

— Daniel Kahneman

“We have come to mistake information for knowledge.”

— Monica Sjoo

“It is amusing to poke fun at the experts when their predictions fail. However, we should be careful with our Schadenfreude. To say our…

— Nate Silver