Quotes About Prediction

I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

We listen to the entrepreneur. We try to have a fine tuning fork to understand what they are saying and whether that makes sense and know it when we see it. We don't try to do too much predicting.

I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I've relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true.

I get a feeling about where a teammate is going to be. A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking.

If you say something in advance - if you describe a problem as it arises, people always turn on you because they don't want to hear about it. But when it's too late to do anything, they will then turn around and say that you were right. That's human nature.

I've made up stuff that's turned out to be real, that's the spooky part.

I looked at Putin and was terrified from the very beginning. That makes me look very prescient because he actually turned out to be exactly the monster that I thought he was.

You have to say what comes into your head, and sometimes the wrong words come, in the wrong order or I'd make prophecies which immediately turned out to be wrong.

Judging ballplayers and turning in reports, giving my opinion of who will get to the big leagues and who will not... I think my baseball judgment was really good.

Foresight turns out to be a critical adaptive strategy for times of great stress.

Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to.

That's the scary part about TV, how you'll feel about it in six years.

If you would have said, in law school, would it be more likely that I would be working on a book or on a TV show, I would have said book.

I have a special ability to spot TV shows that don't go past two seasons; that's my gift.

After I am dead, the boy will ruin himself in twelve months.

Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent with a speed far exceeding that of a bird.

For much of the twentieth century, 1984 was a year that belonged to the future - a strange, gray future at that. Then it slid painlessly into the past, like any other year. Big Brother arrived and settled in, though not at all in the way George Orwell had imagined.

I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.

The reality is customers lie - not because they want to want to deceive you, but because they don't do a good job of predicting what they will do in the future.

But the idea that some day people would want to be able to interact and get stock quotes and talk with other people or all these different things, I just believed that was going to happen

I must analyze, from what I do now, what will be the impact two or three or five years in the future. What is the statement I want to make?

People never know what they want, though everyone says they do. If they did, nobody would ever be surprised.

I'm going to be mentally ill in fifteen years, and that's why my husband doesn't want to be around me.

I have it on good authority that Victor's going to have car trouble. Also that Robert really likes Cheerios, so if you want some, you're out of luck. He doesn't seem like the sharing type.