Quotes About Prediction

You can't rightly estimate what a man will do when he's in drink.

We do not agree, eh?" said Poirot. "Well, let us leave it. Time will show which of us is right.

Futurist Faith Popcorn goes even further. By the year 2010, she predicts, 90 percent of all consumer products will be home-delivered. "They'll put a refrigerator in your garage and bar code your kitchen. Every week they'll restock your favorites, without your ever having to reorder. They'll even pick up your dry cleaning, return your videotapes, whatever you need.

You can predict which features in any new technology will be used and which won't. The use of a feature is inversely proportional to the amount of interaction needed to control

Strap a piece of toast -buttered side up- to the back of a cat. Throw the cat out of the window. Will the cat land on its feet or will Murphy's law apply?

The best way tp predict the future is to invent it.

we predict the future, the best way to predict the future is to invent it

What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?

Infine vorrei avanzare qualche congettura sulle ripercussioni che le macchine calcolatrici elettroniche digitali avranno sulla matematica. Ho già accennato al fatto che l'ACE svolgerà il lavoro di circa diecimila calcolatori umani; c'è da aspettarsi dunque che il calcolo manuale su larga scala scomparirà.

Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.

I think even back as far as 'Lord of the Rings,' there was always the chance that 'The Hobbit' would be made, even way back then. Of course at that point, Peter Jackson didn't probably think at that point that he'd be directing it.

I was in a phase when I was obsessed - I still am - with fortunetellers and psychics.

Will the social networking phenomenon lessen? I don't think so.

The Celtics were always going to pick me No. 1, but Philly didn't know that.

I have a feeling when I'm 80 years old I'm going to get a phone call: There's going to be another Rocky.

Football has a future. I don't know what that future is. I'm a physician.

It's not clear in physics why you can't see the future.

If you pick up that information, the first metre or two, the ball coming out of the hand, you can analyse what's coming.

As far as I'm aware, you can't tell if something is going to be successful. Brilliant scripts often don't get picked up, and terrible ones do all the time!

I told Gamboa he picked the wrong fighter and the wrong city, and I was right. I never felt any danger in the fight.

I don't know when pink is going to come back in style.

Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I've had some failures. On the other hand, I also predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of fundamentalist Islam... and I'm not happy to be right in all of those cases.

I think the writing on the wall is definitely there this year that this is probably our last year.

I was thinking about doing another film at the same time, which was the sequel to Basic Instinct and I just had a feeling that wasn't going to happen. You know, I just kind of read the writing on the wall.