Quotes About Prediction

Obviously, things can get derailed, particularly if, which looks more and more likely, you get a blow-up between Israel and Iran. I think that's a very real probability now. But barring some real blow-up, the U.S. economy will grow, after a slow first quarter, about 3, 3.5 percent this year, far better than it was in 2011.

Science fiction is one of the smartest genres around because you have to have so much forethought.

I didn't think Comfort and Joy was going to be a box-office smash.

The sense of smell, like a faithful counsellor, foretells its character.

I can smell trouble miles away.

Adam Smith's huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.

Whenever people are confronted by a prediction for the future that they simply cannot or will not believe, they always say, 'It will never happen in my lifetime.' If the prediction is something they deplore and fear, they say it with calculated bravado, often adding a smug, snorty hhrrummph.

TotuÈ™i, tot ceea ce pot s? realizeze scriitorii în general este s? ridice în aer un deget sensibil È™i s? presimt? o schimbare a vremii; foarte rar ei înÈ™iÈ™i provoac? schimbarea.

We approach experience much as an artificial intelligence (AI) program does, with our brains continually translating the data of the present into the terms of the past, reaching back in time for the relevant experience, and then using that to make its best guess as to how to predict and navigate the future.

A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association predicts that a child born in 2000 has a one-in-three chance of developing diabetes. (An African American child's chances are two in five.)

Reductionism in the physical sciences has been challenged by the principle of emergence. The whole system acquires qualitatively new properties that cannot be predicted from the simple addition of those of its individual components. One might apply the aphorism that the new system is greater than the sum of its parts. There is a phase shift, a change in the organizational structure, going from one scale to the next.

it was already tomorrow. She should have known from the beginning that it would end like this.

The physicist Niels Bohr was fond of saying, "Prediction is very hard to do. Especially about the future

And Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, said in 1943, "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.

The lesson here is that it is very dangerous to bet against the future.

La única predicción importante que no se ha cumplido es la clonación humana.

The corollary to the Cave Man Principle is that if you want to predict the social interactions of humans in the future, simply imagine our social interactions 100,000 years ago and multiply by a billion. This means there will be a premium placed on gossip, social networking, and entertainment

En algún momento debemos esperar que las máquinas tomen el control. ALAN TURING

Everyone is wrong about the future.

All predictions are wrong, that's one of the few certainties granted to mankind. But though predictions may be wrong, they are right about the people who voice them, not about their future but about their experience of the present moment.

Con un oroscopo, in effetti, si può influenzare a meraviglia, anzi dirigere, il comportamento delle persone. Si può facilmente raccomandare loro certi comportamenti, distoglierli da altri e condurli all'umiltà con sottili allusioni a catastrofi future.

He loved me and I loved him, but the number in my head was telling me that he was going to die today. And the numbers had never been wrong.

it's as though the photons have a "premonition" of the experimental situation they will encounter farther downstream, and act accordingly. It's as if a consistent and definite history becomes manifest only after the future to which it leads has been fully settled.4

The unexpected is not always a surprise. —Mentat observation