Quotes About Prediction

It wasn't real conservatism at all, of course, but an unthought longing for the dear old days when one could predict what would be there tomorrow, if not next week. Unable to get the big picture, they welcomed the conveniences, the miniaturization of this and the speed of that, and then they were angrily confused when their support of these things changed their world.

Every time you make a guess of what a judge is going to do... you're wrong, so I try to stay away from that.

You give me a song now, I will give my judgement, and 90 percent of the time I will be right. It is simple for me but is otherwise tough to do. But there are times - because I am not God - 10 percent of the times, when a song has worked though I said it would not.

Nate Robinson has a lot of jumping ability, but I don't see Josh losing.

I like Habibti in the Juvenile Fillies.

This is the moment when I should also admit that when the Internet first arrived I kept telling people it was a fad.

You know those movies where the people in the audience are screaming, 'Don't go in that door!' because you know the killer is there? Well, it is the same thing with this debt. We know how this ends.

A gypsy told me I was going to do great things. I was going to make all kinds of money.

Everybody says they're going to knock me out, and no one's done it yet.

If a rooster crows while you're thinking about a man," the fortuneteller had once told Maria, "then he's the one you'll marry.

I wasn't entirely sure, but a polite John Pritkin might be a sign of the apocalypse.

Pessimists are only pessimists when they're wrong. When we're right, the world calls us prophets.

Qué es la confianza, sidhe-seer, sino la expectativa de que otro se comporte de un modo determinado, basada en acciones previas?

I often think, that she foresaw only the end times, never hot dogs.

What a shame, I often think, that she foresaw only the end times, never hot dogs.

Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.

Is it within the power of any social science to make sweeping historical prophecies? Can we expect to get more than the irresponsible reply of the soothsayer if we ask a man what the future has in store for mankind?

Every 'good' scientific theory is a prohibition: it forbids certain things to happen. The more a theory forbids, the better it is.

We may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.

There is no law of progress, and everything will depend on ourselves. But the actual situation is briefly and fairly summed up by Parkes36 in one sentence: 'Low wages, long hours, and child labour have been characteristic of capitalism not, as Marx predicted, in its old age, but in its infancy.

Önemli olan, eylemlerimizin önceden kestirilemeyen sonuçlar? hakk?nda ne kadar az bilgiye sahip olabilece?imizin bilincinde olmam?zd?r.

Multiple experiments with spirit contact transmitted the name Matthew Edward Hall on several occasions. I predict this to be a very important future individual in humanities development. Possibly the second embodiment of Christ on Earth.

The man who has the disease of tomorrow is the most unfortunate man in the world.

A programmer is a diviner of possible outcomes, and a seer of unseen worlds.