Quotes About Prediction

I see that the life of this place is always emerging beyond expectation or prediction or typicality, that it is unique, given to the world minute by minute, only once, never to be repeated. And this is when I see that this life is a miracle, absolutely worth having, absolutely worth saving. We are alive within mystery, by miracle.

Some people believe that Moore's Law will continue to be accurate until about 2015.

If I had learned anything after years in the business, it was how little I could ever know about what the market would do tomorrow.

We are all at times unconscious prophets.

Regression analysis is the hydrogen bomb of the statistics arsenal.

I don't know how, or whether it is even possible to predict what the world will look like the next day. I simply have to close my eyes, and wait until tomorrow in order to find out.

O Tarot que ela me lançou não revelou grande coisa, apenas que tinha uma longa viagem pela frente e que sentia a falta da minha família. Parvina predisse igualmente que um membro da nossa equipa perderia dinheiro, mas tais revelações não provinham certamente do além.

Once we understand how they think, we can predict their behaviour. And once we predict it well, we can manipulate it. That is diplomacy.

Past behavior is the best predictor of future behavior.

I knew you'd come, once you saw the site," Libby said. "I knew you'd find me.

A danger foreseen is half-avoided.

Long-range weather forecast: It's gonna get real hot, then it's gonna get real cold, then it's gonna get real hot again.

If there's a 50/50 chance that a forecast will go wrong, nine times out of ten it will.

No one has a sorrier lot than the weatherman. He is ignored when he is right, but execrated when he is wrong.

All you need to forecast the weather is a stone on a string — • Stone wet: Rain • Stone dry: Not raining • Shadow on ground: Sunny • White on stone: Snow • Can't see stone: Foggy • Swinging stone: Windy • Jumpy stone: Earthquake • Stone gone: Tornado

To know exactly where the zodiac sign is, multiply the day of the month by the sign, then find a dividend that will go into a divider four times without any remains, subtract this from the sign, add the first quotient to the last divider, then multiply the whole of the man's body by all the signs, and the result will be just what you are looking after.

If Candlemas Day be fair and bright, Winter will have another fight; But if Candlemas Day be clouds and rain, Winter is gone, and will not come again.

Yesterday was "ground-hog's day" in many parts of the United States, and Candlemas day in many other parts of the world. From time immemorial, it has been a critical day in the affairs of the weather. The character of the second of February is really of much more importance than whether the first of March comes in like a lion or a lamb. The simplest form of the adage is:— If Candlemas day be bright and clear, There'll be two winters in that year.

The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it.

But we are never prepared for what we expect...

Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is eighty percent of being a successful hitter. The other twenty percent is just execution.

Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80 percent of being a successful hitter. The other 20 percent is just execution.

You've got to remember, the older you get the slower you get. I've seen a lot of players get old ... if I can have a good season in 1972 and come back with another good one, well, that's different. I might not quit. But two bad ones back to back and staying home would be written on the wall.

Predictions of the future are never anything but projections of present automatic processes and procedures, that is, of occurrences that are likely to come to pass if men do not act and if nothing unexpected happens; every action, for better or worse, and every accident necessarily destroys the whole pattern in whose frame the prediction moves and where it finds its evidence.