Quotes About Prediction

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

to hope was to expect

From Mrs. Bennett to Jane: I knew how it would be. I always said it must be so, at last. I was sure you could not be so beautiful for nothing!

A funny thing about near-future stories: the future catches up to them. If the author is unlucky, the future catches up faster than the book can get out the door.

Saying that something is accessible gives it this implication that people need something, and thinking that we know what people need or want is really unpleasant. I don't like to think that way, like, predicting what it is that the people want.

Through all aspects of society be it art, design, the financial markets, government, technology or communications we are witnessing unprecedented global transformation - the result of which is impossible to predict.

Nothing is inevitable until it happens.

I think that people have realized it's very unwise to bet against Donald Trump.

People ask my mother whether she had any idea that I'd be CEO of a company some day, and she would say, 'Absolutely not. Totally out of the realm of possibility.' There was certainly nothing that would have been very predictable in my upbringing.

If you had met me as a kid you would have never predicted me to be a success. I had a pretty ropey upbringing and you might have thought I'd have gone the other way.

Only way you can you get upset is when you expecting something.

I really didn't think this was going to be a success. We did the first three episodes and I said to Adam, 'I can't see this going anywhere. I've already used up all my urban legends.'

I am convinced that it will not be long before the whole world acknowledges the results of my work.

I always work the same way, starting from the beginning of the weekend, so I know at the beginning of the race, from all that I have analysed during the practice, whether I will win the race or not.

I would say that in 2000, we understand as much about how today's system of globalization is going to work as we understood about how the Cold War system was going to work in 1946.

I deal in facts, not forecasting the future. That's crystal ball stuff. That doesn't work.

I have an innate instinct for knowing what's going to work.

It's hard to know at any stage whether a show is going to work or not. Every few years, a different trend comes along.

I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later.

If the models are as flawed as critics say you have to ask yourself, 'How come they work?'

It's always hard to predict what's coming up next. My main guess is that content creators will increasingly start using BitTorrent to distribute their own work directly.

Until his dying days, Steve Jobs could not only predict the direction the marketplace would be heading, but help drive it there.

The difference between playing the stock market and the horses is that one of the horses must win.

If Tung Chee-hwa dies, the stock market will take off.