Quotes About Prediction

I have seen the future and it is very much like the present - only longer.

Some can read the writing on the wall.others put it there.

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.

interiores de otras personas, ver a través de sus ojos y sentir lo mismo que ellos. Podemos ser empáticos. Podemos anticipar el futuro e intentar hacerlo realidad. Estos poderes, la retrospección, la empatía y la premonición, se encuentran entre nuestros mejores recursos para dar forma una y otra vez a nuestras vidas.

All this talk about artificial intelligence is really just hype, it will take at least fifty years before we have to let them vote.

The stock market is almost magical because it always leads the economy. It goes down long before the economy drops and then heads higher long before the economy rebounds. It always has.

Sure enough, America was shocked by Babson's words: "More people are borrowing and speculating today than ever in our history. Sooner or later a crash is coming which will take in the leading stocks and cause a decline of from 60 to 80 points in the Dow Jones barometer. Wise are those investors who get out of debt and reef their sails.

Different, not opposite. That's the key to using professional forecasts—and the key to being a contrarian.

Forecasts are difficult to make—particularly those about the future.

Natural laws are statistical truths, which means that they are completely valid only when we are dealing with macrophysical quantities. In the realm of very small quantities prediction becomes uncertain, if not impossible, because very small quantities no longer behave in accordance with the known natural laws.

The dream, we would say, originates in an unknown part of the psyche and prepares the dreamer for the events of the following day.

They sometimes behave like the Delphic oracle that told King Croesus that if he crossed the Halys River he would destroy a large kingdom. It was only after he had been completely defeated in battle after the crossing that he discovered that the kingdom meant by the oracle was his own.

No truth can be determined that concerns the future.

Other interviews in the archive promote this same idea that it's hard to predict in advance what you'll eventually grow to love.

Never say 'never,' my dear. It saves a great deal of embarrassing explanation later.

In my work I don't have that luxury. The stakes of some predictions require that I intimately recognize and accept what I observe in others no matter who they are, no matter what they have done, no matter what they might do, no matter where it takes me in myself. There may be a time in your life when you too won't have the luxury of saying you don't recognize someone's sinister intent. Your survival may depend on your recognizing it.

As we stand on the tracks, we can avoid the oncoming train only if we are willing to see it and willing to predict that it won't stop. But instead of improving the technologies of prediction, America improves the technologies of conflict:

if you cannot imagine something, you also cannot predict it, nor protect against it.

So here we are, traveling along faster than anyone before the 1900's ever traveled (unless they were falling off a cliff), dodging giant, high-momentum steel missiles, judging the intent of their operators with a fantastic accuracy, and then saying we can't predict human behavior.

I spent half my childhood and half my adulthood practicing prediction while perfecting denial.

Often, the very fact that you are worrying about something means that it isn't likely to happen.

I've presented these facts about the frequency of violence for a reason: to increase the likelihood that you will believe it is at least possible that you or someone you care for will be a victim at some time. That belief is a key element in recognizing when you are in the presence of danger. That belief balances denial, the powerful and cunning enemy of successful predictions.

Often, knowing the language of a given prediction is more important than understanding exactly what a person says.