Quotes About Prediction

The future's written in water.

I tell my younger friends that one day they'll be at a bar playing pool and they'll look up at the television set and there will be a picture of Princess Leia with two dates underneath, and they'll say, "Awww—she said that would happen." And then they'll go back to playing pool.

We begin with the proposition that capitalism is not chiefly an incentive system but an information system. We continue with the recognition, explained by the most powerful science of the epoch, that information is best defined as surprised-what we cannot predict rather than what we can. The key to economic growth is not acquisition of things by the pursuit of monetary rewards but the expansion of wealth through learning and discovery.

Yet I believe the Google system of the world will fail, indeed be swept away in our time (and I am seventy-eight!). It will fail because its every major premise will fail.

Perhaps the safest prediction we can make about the future is that it will surprise us.

If a man paints a target on his chest, he should expect that sooner or later someone will loose an arrow on him.

A long summer always meant a long winter to come.

When we speak of the morrow nothing is ever certain.

Yet unbeknownst to all but a few, storm clouds were gathering on the horizon, and faintly in the distance wise men could hear a rumble of thunder.

That is the nature of prophecy... Prophecy will bite your prick off every time.

Tell me who's won and I'll tell you what it means.

No more than he knew that the Beggar King would die young, or that Khal Drogo would follow him into the grave. Very little of what the fat man has anticipated has come to pass.

son for Loraq, no heir to unite dragon and harpy. When the sun rises in the west and sets in the east, when the seas go dry and mountains blow in the

Can our morrows be foretold?" he repeated slowly. "Mayhaps. There are certain spells in the old books … but Your Grace might ask instead, 'Should our morrows be foretold?

The Second World War broke out within a few months of the publication of Rehabilitations and The Personal Heresy. Jack was then a man of forty. He had published seven books, of which only two were moderately successful. No one could have guessed that within a few years his would become a household name.

Wait a minute. What did you just say? You're predicting $4-a-gallon gas? ... That's interesting. I hadn't heard that.

Jesters do often prove prophets.

If February give much snow A fine Summer it doth foreshow.

The best prophet of the future is the past.

The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.

I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet.

Reason deserves to be called a prophet; for in showing up the consequence and effect of our actions in the present, does it not tell us what the future will be?

Coming events cast their shadows before.

Skate to where the puck is going and not to where it's been.