Quotes About Prediction

O dia de hoje já é o amanhã que os maus economistas, ontem, nos aconselharam a ignorar.

God himself can't change the future and still know what's going to happen.

although the future is not predictable in any detail, it is manageable as an aggregate phenomenon.

The problem is we don't know what the climate is doing. We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some alarmist books - mine included - because it looked clear-cut, but it hasn't happened.

If somebody told me people would still care about our music 25 years ago, I would have thought they were crazy.

Twenty years ago I brought young, unknown film maker Joe Wright with me to a private show of 'Nil by Mouth.' Gary Oldman asked me if he was any good. I said, 'give it a few years and he'll direct you in a film that will win you an Oscar.'

When we think about online learning, it's such 'early days.' Bill Gates is a wildly smart insightful guy. Yet, even a guy as smart and insightful as that, 30 years ago can say things like, 'Who's every going to need more than 640K of memory?'

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen.

Cameras can look down from on high and predict crop yields, traffic in Walmart parking lots, and travel patterns on Labor Day weekend. On the ground, they form the foundation of autonomous-driving systems.

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

At a very young age I was predicting outcomes, trying to take all the information and find the best route to wherever I was going. I avoided a lot of pitfalls because of that.

I pick up on styles, way before they get popular, pretty much before young kids do. I see 'em coming.

It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.

I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work or actions, but it feels like I knew I was going to be famous and I knew that an element of that would be traumatic, so that if I could make myself something big and otherworldly, it would be a kind of defence.

I never understand why 'economist makes forecast' is ever a headline. Whether the economist in question is from the International Monetary Fund, a City forecasting group or the Treasury - a forecast is still not news.

It is very difficult for anyone to predict how a film will do. It depends on so many things: the mood of the audience, the state of their mind at the time, how they have reacted to the whole treatment.

Hercules King of Rome and of Annemark, three times one surnamed de Gaulle will lead, Italy and the one of St. Mark to tremble, first monarch, renowned above all.

We did some research that showed that the very first word of your message that you send a girl - when we looked at men sending messages to women - the very first word can have a tremendous... can have a very accurate prediction of whether you're going to get a reply.

As every entrepreneur and investor sifts through year-end data to predict the next trend or opportunity for financial success, there is a much easier way to accurately predict the future: hang out with those who are creating it.

I'm always the last person in the world who would ever try to predict a trend.

Science fiction is about extrapolation, looking back through history, spotting a trend, and predicting where it will go.

Actually, it's difficult to predict which films would be accepted by the audience. The trend changes time to time.

The future will be determined in part by happenings that it is impossible to foresee; it will also be influenced by trends that are now existent and observable.