Quotes About Prediction

Larry Page, co-founder of Google, is an unbelievable big thinker, and there was a saying in Google that if you wanted to know the future, go to Larry.

The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate.

The outlook for the economy, as always, is highly uncertain.

I know the hole he went in at, but I can't tell you what hole he will come out of.

Now this foreknowledge cannot be elicited from spirits; it cannot be obtained inductively from experience, nor by any deductive calculation.

Well, we won the war. You know what that means. In twenty years, we'll all be driving Iraqi cars

I seriously doubt if we will ever have another war. This is probably the very last one.

I regret very much to hear so many people, many of my own countrymen, predicting war, stating that Europe is preparing and arming for such a conflict.

What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.

The reality of today from a cyber security point of view - I think some of the top people predict that the next big war is fought on cyber security.

History is littered with the wars everybody knew could never happen.

The Djojobojo Prophecy doesn't just tell you WHAT happened and WHERE it happened...it tells you WHY it happened!

The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.

'Pears like my heart go flutter, flutter, and then they may say, 'Peace, Peace, ' as much as they likes - I know it's goin' to be war!

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

How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!

No matter what you do, someone always knew you would.

Knowledge is telling the past. Wisdom is predicting the future.

We believe in the wisdom once expressed by the hockey star Wayne Gretzky, who explained his success by saying, 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.'

An economist is a man that can tell you...what can happen under any given condition, and his guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's too.

Nothing the night said about the morning turned out to be true.

When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.

In around 2020 a severe pneumonia-like illness will spread throughout the globe, attacking the lungs and the bronchial tubes and resisting all known treatments. Almost more baffling than the illness itself will be the fact that it will suddenly vanish as quickly as it arrived, attack again ten years later, and then disappear completely.

The year 2020 will mark the end of the U.S. presidency and the executive branch of the government. Let's just say the American public will finally be fed up by then and leave it at that.