Quotes About Prediction

The Strokes will never get anywhere after that first record.

I don't always do a lot of predicting, but, when I get a really strong feeling about something, I will tell people.

My grandfather allowed as how I might even live long enough to see a Mars landing. I haven't, of course, except in fiction, including my own, and strongly doubt that I ever will.

We believe there is no fundamental structural changes in the young-adult market. There are, of course, fashion changes, and the success of each brand depends on the accuracy with which it predicts those changes.

Britain could contribute huge value to the world by leveraging existing assets, including scientific talent and how the NHS is structured, to push the frontiers of a rapidly evolving scientific field - genomic prediction - that is revolutionising healthcare in ways that give Britain some natural advantages over Europe and America.

All the knowing ones were consulted as to the issue, and they all agreed, to a man, in one of two opinions: either that Bob would flog Billy, or Billy would flog Bob.

I've always liked to think ahead. Not stupid-far ahead. A hundred years doesn't interest me. But 20 years interests me, and more for what happens to humans as opposed to things.

Some people think the world will end in 2012. I think we've got until 2014. I'm an optimist.

I would be amazed if Oracle does not buy NetSuite.

I think email's going to be around for, like, another 10,000 years. It's a great way to cross organizational boundaries.

Being right is overrated! If someone is saying that they're right about the future, that's a claim only a fool would make.

Call it a hunch; and hunches don't just materialise, you pay for them with hard-earned experience. No such thing as a free hunch.

Everything, as Peyman said, may be a fiction – but the Future is the biggest shaggy-dog story of all.

this fails—then woe to Europe!

unearthing some of the most disturbing moments in Austrian history. He had made a sort of subspecialty of studying intellectuals persecuted in the pre-Nazi era, and we discussed his fascinating work on the assassination of Hugo Bettauer, the writer and editor whose dystopian 1923 novel, Die Stadt Ohne Juden (The City Without Jews), remains one of the most uncanny predictions of a historic catastrophe ever written.

If you flip a coin 1000 times, eventually it's going to roll away someplace where you can't get it.

Does anyone know when they are going to come out with the new Mayan Calender?

Everyone's personality is a manifestation of their combined past experiences. If you are able to observe and interpret someone's behavior, you will eventually be able to predict that person's behavior as well.

You never know what's going to happen. My mother was an English teacher. If someone had told her that I was going to write a book, she would never have believed that. So you can never say never.

Many scientists predict that as early as 2024 an unprecedented event will happen that will completely change our lives.

As long as we can control our creations, though, truly enormous life-changing advantages will result. These could do everything for us and enrich our lives in ways we can only guess at the moment. It could be a golden age of progress and discovery that will benefit us all. Some experts predict this precisely, but others foresee something far grimmer. Who will be right? What do you think?

It could be a golden age of progress and discovery that will benefit us all. Some experts predict this precisely, but others foresee something far grimmer. Who will be right? What do you think?

Bøgers skæbne er ligeså forunderlig som menneskers. Den er aldrig til at forudse.

All of a sudden there's a song - there in your hotel room playing your guitar - and you write it, and two or three years later it will come true. It keeps you on your toes.