Happens Quote by Zygmunt Bauman

The realization that you can't predict the future -- and mold it -- could only come as a shock to an academic.

— David Harsanyi

I think it's impossible to predict the future but it is possible to look at the past and see how one can do differently…

— Theodore Zeldin

I am profoundly skeptical about our abilities to predict the future in general, and human behavior in particular.

— Errol Morris

I have learned not to do predictions. It's not helpful, psychologically. I don't sit and fret about things.

— Mumia Abu-Jamal

My stories are warnings; they're not predictions. If they were predictions, I wouldn't do them. Because then I'd be part of the doom-ridden psychology.…

— Ray Bradbury

One of my few shortcomings is that I can't predict the future.

— Lars Ulrich

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

— Michael Lewis

You can't predict anything. How can you be certain about anything when everything is chaos and we're not in control?

— John Lloyd

I am incredibly bad at predicting the future; I am only smart enough to observe the present and listen to my intuition about tendencies.

— Rem Koolhaas

“What’s the point of making predictions if they cannot change anything? Some complex systems, such as the weather, are oblivious to our predictions. The…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Understanding men or ideas or movements, or the outlooks of individuals or groups, is not reducible to a sociological classification into types of behaviour…

— Isaiah Berlin

I'm a historian. The act of predicting the future discomfits me, in any event - and the bigger the prediction, the more distrusting I…

— Rick Perlstein