Quotes About Prediction

With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured.

There is no data on the future.

He who foresees calamities suffers them twice over.

He who lives in the future lives in a featureless blank; he lives in impersonality; he lives in Nirvana. The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction, just as each man is alone in a dream.

The past is the best way to suppose what may come.

When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.

The past is the best prophet of the future.

Reappraise the past, reevaluate where we've been, clarify where we are, and predict or anticipate where we are headed.

The crisis you have to worry about most is the one you don't see coming.

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Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

Najbednija i najtragi?nija od svih ?ovekovih slabosti nesumnjivo je njegova potpuna nesposobnost predvi?anja, koja je u oštroj protivnosti sa tolikim njegovim darovima, veštinama i znanjima.

Neizvesnost je imanje onih koji nemaju nista i velika nada onih koji nisu navikli na dobro u zivotu. Neizvesnost je za razumne i ponosne ljude ono sto je gatara za budale, slabice i sebicnjake: nagovestava dobro i zlo, pogadja retko, ali zato dopusta sve, i najoprecenije, mogucnosti.

La literatura es un arte que sabe profetizar aquel tiempo en que habrá enmudecido, [...] y enamorarse de la propia disolución y cortejar su fin.

I learned long ago never to predict. All you can do is influence what you can and endure the rest.

And of course now no one can tell us that there is no God. We've passed through all forms. You remember, Sal, when I first came to New York and I wanted Chad King to teach me about Nietzsche. You see how long ago? Everything is fine, God exists, we know time. Everything since the Greeks has been predicted wrong. You can't make it with geometry and geometrical systems of thinking. It's all this!

Humanity will be obsolete by 2050. This is the consensus at Google and Facebook and Twitter.

Type 'What is th' and faster than you can find the 'e' Google is sending choices back at you: 'What is the cloud?' 'What is the mean?' 'What is the American dream?' 'What is the illuminati?' Google is trying to read your mind. Only it's not your mind. It's the World Brain.

There are lots of reasons email persists, even as faster and simpler forms of communication proliferate and your personal communications likely have mostly migrated elsewhere. But one big one is that new types of media channels rarely totally kill off old ones, even though everyone predicts they will.

The entire Internet, as well as the types of devices represented by the desktop computer, the laptop computer, the iPhone, the iPod, and the iPad, are a continuing inescapable embarrassment to science fiction, and an object lesson in the fallibility of genre writers and their vaunted predictive abilities.

Gibson wrote 'Neuromancer' on a typewriter, you know, before the technology he was writing about existed.

My dad is a great judge of fights. He's the only person I know who said that Holyfield would beat Tyson the first time.

I see Mike Tyson as too strong for Spinks.

I really thought Tiz the Law was unbeatable.