Quotes About Prediction

To think that guys who grew up in the '60s would make a miniseries supporting the idea that Oswald acted alone is something I certainly wouldn't have predicted. But time and evidence can change the way we view things.

I have a weird sense sometimes of what's going to happen before it happens, and I kind of live by that, which is how my instincts operate, I suppose.

If it had been what was supposed to happen, it would have happened.

I never want to be in the business of predicting what the U.S. Supreme Court will do.

I think no one really knows for sure what will work at the box office. Even big production houses don't know what will do well and what won't.

Alternatives to oil are coming up. In the long run, it is not going to be as bleak as people are predicting but surely consumption of fuel by automobile sector is going to go down.

I've made movies that we're very successful that we're a complete surprise, and I've made movies that I thought we're going to be very successful that, you know.

I had been told by so many people that I was going to be nominated, that I should be nominated, that there wasn't any question about my being nominated. I don't think it was a surprise.

When I think people like one record more than the other, then someone will surprise me.

I assumed that 'Gone Girl' would do incrementally better than 'Dark Places,' and that would be great. So the fact that it did more than that was kind of an incredibly pleasant surprise.

It's a big surprise for me because if somebody asked me when I was playing if Frank Lampard would be a manager, I would say no because he's very quiet.

I think I'm going to surprise a lot of people.

I wasn't in any way a kind of soothsayer or not surprised when Sept. 11 happened. I was absolutely shocked.

I wouldn't be surprised if I knocked Ricky Hatton out. It's something that people are going to read and think I'm ridiculous, but if you look beyond what you see with naked eye, every time he gets hit clean, he's hurt.

I must have been one of the least surprised people on earth on September 11. I felt very braced for that. I knew something like that was going to come.

It is difficult to predict technology more than 10 years out with any certitude, but what I observe is that change and innovation happens earlier and faster than we expect. We are constantly surprised at what technology can do.

Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.

I don't want to set the world up for surprises.

Nothing ever surprises me about the market.

It's seldom anything turns out to be better than you expected it to be. Usually it's the other way around.

Trying to guess the enemy's next move is useful; trying to guess what they are thinking is pointless.

Only a genius might have foreseen such a turn; Bovai had a high opinion of his own skills and ability, but stopped short of considering himself a genius.

One more thing about Cassandra: in the most famous version of the myth, the disbelief with which her prophecies were met was the result of a curse placed on her by Apollo when she refused to have sex with the god.

Despair is a form of certainty, certainty that the future will be a lot like the present or will decline from it;