Quotes About Prediction

Our starting point then was trying to find a way to incorporate mean reversion into the HoLee model.

Bose-Einstein condensation is one of the most intriguing phenomena predicted by quantum statistical mechanics.

Its Arsenal 0 - Everton 1, and the longer it stays like that the more you've got to fancy Everton.

I have already told Neymar he could be the best player in the world, but I think that if he stays at PSG, he will never achieve that.

I try to be two or three steps ahead of my guy, my opponent.

I'm always good at seeing five, ten steps ahead. Like, really thinking ahead, you know? Reverse engineering, whatever it is, you know.

With my position, you have to kind of be three steps ahead of your opponent.

Fear is the mother of foresight.

Revision and prediction seem like wastes of time. As much as I'd like to have a handle on the past and future, the moment I live in is the one I have. Here is how the moment instructs me: clouds float in front of the moon's face, lights flicker in the carved heads of pumpkins, leaves rise in the wind at random, saints go nameless, love comforts, souls sing beyond the reach of bodies.

as a man predicts ill, he becomes inclined to wish it. The pride of having his judgment right hardens his heart, till at last he beholds with satisfaction, or sees with disappointment, the accomplishment or failure of his predictions.

When I was twelve, a fortune teller told me that my one true love would die young and leave me all alone.. Everyone said she was a fraud, that she was just making it up.. I'd really like to know why the hell a person would make up a thing like that.

as any roulette player can tell you, past performance has no bearing on future random outcome. So

June 1. The opening day of the Atlantic hurricane season

I don't think the computer will win the Booker, but no-one ever expected a computer to beat a chess grandmaster.

Nobody can see into the future. Nobody knows what going to go on.

Nobody knows what the future holds.

And my friends, you ain't seen nothin' yet.

Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.

You no longer have much in the way of knowing what to do in a big, epic novel about the future, because nobody knows what the hell is going to happen.

So, I guess the answer to your question is very few people can bring off a novel of the future because it's just so damn hard to make it look like the future.

The novelist wants to know how things will turn out; the historian already knows how things turned out, but wants to know why they turned out the way they did.

The days of the digital watch are numbered.

In 1981, I was a futurist - or at least I was a guy who put on a futurist hat occasionally - and I wrote about the 21st century.

Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going. Of course, some people never go beyond Expectations