Quotes About Prediction

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

My business is to prevent the future.

I think that the first thing is you should have a strategic asset allocation mix that assumes that you don't know what the future is going to hold.

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

I set the date for the Singularity—representing a profound and disruptive transformation in human capability—as 2045. The nonbiological intelligence created in that year will be one billion times more powerful than all human intelligence today.

Predicting the future is actually the primary reason that we have a brain.

perform the equivalent of all human thought over the last ten thousand years (assumed at ten billion human brains for ten thousand years) in ten microseconds.64 If we examine the "Exponential Growth of Computing" chart (p. 70), we see that this amount of computing is estimated to be available for one thousand dollars by 2080.

Although I'm not prepared to move up my prediction of a computer passing the Turing test by 2029, the progress that has been achieved in systems like Watson should give anyone substantial confidence that the advent of Turing-level AI is close at hand. If one were to create a version of Watson that was optimized for the Turing test, it would probably come pretty close.

Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons. —POPULAR MECHANICS

we are constantly predicting the future and hypothesizing what we will experience. This expectation influences what we actually perceive. Predicting the future is actually the primary reason that we have a brain.

Our intuition about the future is linear. But the reality of information technology is exponential, and that makes a profound difference. If I take 30 steps linearly, I get to 30. If I take 30 steps exponentially, I get to a billion.

racing certainty

Hindsight is expensive. Foresight is valuable.

I'm always careful to even guess, at any juncture, about things before we do them.

The expectations were low for 'Castle;' people thought we'd be one season and done.

Thinking about the future will cause it to change.

I knew that Errol Spence Jr. was going to be my last fight. I knew that in 2017 when he won his championship fight. But after we fought, I felt that there was something else, and that something else was Terence Crawford.

I could think six shots ahead. It's no different to playing chess.

Obviously, in football you can study somebody, but at the same time, once you get out there, I think there's just a natural kind of feel for where you think guys might be or where they're going to go and knowing beforehand what's going to happen. It's just like chess.

When I first started, all the reviews of Cold Chisel would say, 'This singer won't have a voice in six months.'

I love watching new acts find their footing. It's fun to watch them early on in their careers and get a gut feeling about who's going to be a superstar.

We Italians are very superstitious so before the game we prefer to predict that the opponents will win.

I hate predicting football scores that mean a lot to me, because even though I'm an absolute materialist and don't believe in anything superstitious, I get superstitious.

Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters.