Quotes About Prediction

Don't let anyone tell you the future is already written. The best any prophet can do is to give you the most likely version of future events. It is up to us to accept the future for what it is, or change it. It is easy to go with the flow; it takes a person of singular courage to go against it.

That's the thing about destiny: It can't be predicted, and it's usually pretty odd.

What's the opposite of déjà vu, when you see something that hasn't happened yet?" "I don't know—avant verrais?

Soothsayers are like that. They see many futures but never their own.

Eso es lo malo de las premoniciines, que tienen la molesta costumbre de hacerse realidad.

Las premoniciones se cumplen porque la gente quiere que se cumplan. Un observador siempre cambia el resultadi de un acontecimiento; millines de observadores, como en este caso, lo garantizan.

No te creas a quien te diga que el futuro ya está escrito. Lo mas que puede hacer un profeta es ofrecerte la versión más probable de los futuros acontecimientos, pero depende de nosotros aceptar el futuro tal y como es, o cambiarlo. Es fácil dejarse llevar por la corriente, pues para nadar en contra hay que ser muy valiente.

I don't know when I am going to be back, so listen carefully. Never buy a blue car or a paddling pool, stay away from oysters and circular saws, and don't be near Oxford in June 2016. Got it?

Foresight being the memory of the future, when everything is seeable nothing is any longer foreseeable.

la conscience du coupable vengerait assez l'innocent. Sa prédiction n'a pas été vaine ; elle ne cesse pas un seul jour de s'accomplir.

they dam up the future. As long as you stay between these walls, whatever happens must happen to the right or the left of the stove...Thus these objects serve at least to fix the limits of probability.

So I was a poodle of the future; I made prophecies.

You can kind of feel when things are going to work out

You can't predict a show, that is the damndest thing, you can't predict if a show is going to work or not until it's on the air.

That's in the nature of social change. So you can analyze what didn't work, but it's very hard to predict what will work.

I was one of the few people who thought Star Wars was going to work, and I hadn't even seen any special effects.

Strategy is, at some level, the ability to predict what's going to happen, but it's also about understanding the context in which it is being formulated. And then you have to be open-minded to the fact that you're not going to get it right at the very beginning.

I find that creative streak I think often leads in programmers to be good predictors of where culture as a whole is going to go. And that is where I think I've tried over the years to in some ways use my customers as a filter or a predictor of where technology as a whole is going to go. Or where the world as a whole is going to go.

I have always said that we did not expect a revolution in the streets.

I was told there would be riots in the streets, but there were no riots.

Smell is a long-distance sense, a way of stretching time and finding out in advance what lies ahead.

You can never predict success. You can never predict another person liking what you are doing. But if you are an interesting storyteller and if you strike the right chord, perhaps you will be understood.

I understand everything Ronda Rousey is gonna bring that day. I don't think she's gonna be able to deal with my striking. She's gonna be really surprised when I touch her, when I connect on my punches.

No one predicted Mercury would be a planetary core with the mantle stripped off. No one predicted volcanoes on the Jovian moons, or oceans on the inside of them. I can tell you, for every single planet, huge 'we never guessed that' things.