Quotes About Prediction

I don't really remember, but from about the age of five I told anyone who would listen that I was going to be the best golfer in the world.

When I was about 25, I went to a hand reader, this Indian guy in a funky neighborhood. He said: The height of your success won't happen until you're in your late 40s.

Tell you," he said, "there ain't a way in this world to know what a human creature is going to do next.

there's always somebody handy afterward to prove their foresight by your hindsight.

destiny spelled out in a constellation of cheap chrome.

The future, eventually, will find you out. The future, wielding unimaginable tools of transparency, will have its way with you. In the end, you will be seen to have done that which you did.

No," said Madison, "not given the immediate future you're trying to keep us from.

Nobody knows anything...... Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work. Every time out it's a guess and, if you're lucky, an educated one.

Why do you wear a mask and hood?" Fezzik asked. "I think everybody will in the near future" was the man in black's reply. "They're terribly comfortable.

Fortune-telling was quantum betting, a competitive scrying of variably likely outcomes.

You got to be worried when they're agreeing about anything," she said. "Prophets. That's the last bloody thing you want prophets to do.

To be clear, it's not so much that you're a brilliant predictor; it's that he's a lousy self-evaluator. We're all lousy self-evaluators.

time periods, and outcome variables Ã¢â'¬Â¦ it is impossible to find any domain in which humans clearly outperformed crude extrapolation algorithms.

prospective hindsight" to work backward from a certain future—they are better at generating explanations for why the event might happen.

the fourth villain of decision making is overconfidence. People think they know more than they do about how the future will unfold.

And this is one way to do technology forecasting get a sense of where technology is, and then anticipate the next upturn.

Leela: Why are we listening to them? It is a waste of time. The Doctor; It is difficult to know what will be a waste of time until after the time has been wasted, by which time it is too late. So predicting what will be a waste of time is something of a waste of time. Unless it gives you pleasure of course when it probably doesn't count as a waste of time. Leela (yawning): I am sorry I did not hear what you said, Doctor. The Doctor (smiling): That was a waste of time then.

Capii molto più tardi che il modo in cui una persona si comporta nei confronti del dolore, rivela sul suo futuro più della maggior parte dei segni che conosco. [...]

As to the last question, the present situation allows no prediction. One can simply say that there seems to be no objective reason for assuming that hominization has reached an unsurpassable summit.

tendency to seize upon the most optimistic timetable for completing a project and ignore any information that might make you revise that prediction. According

Truth be told, you can make a hell of a lot more money by being wrong at the right time than by being right at the wrong time.

Kazim used to give me strange looks whenever I tapped a corner of one of his comic strips and asked what was next. He thought it was strange of me to ask. What's next is what happened before.

You can predict an eclipse a thousand years hence, but you cannot predict what will happen when you pull a bulldog's tail!

You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.