Quotes About Prediction

Ubik talks to us from the future, from the end state to which everything is moving; thus Ubik is not here—which is to say now—but will be

He didn't just know there would be personal computers. He knew they would crash, that the people who came to fix them would charge heavily by the hour, and be annoying, and no good, and in the end would just tell you to buy a new and more expensive machine –

La partícula que se mueve de tal forma que nos impide predecir la posición que ocupará en un segundo determinado

All those centuries, regarded as a pretty and comforting fable by the world's intellectuals, something to lull people into accepting their fate. The understanding that, as predicted, it would one day be literally true, that it was not a myth—

But everyone who guessed in this way went low, rather than high. It suggests that there is some form of systemic bias in play.

As far back as 1922, Ludwig von Mises wrote a 500-page treatise predicting that socialism would not work. Socialist theorists, he wrote, had failed to recognize basic economic realities that would eventually bankrupt the future they were creating. These included the indispensability of markets for allocating resources, and of private property for providing the incentives that drive the engines of social wealth.

Your life will never be the same, but happiness again is still possible. Never being happy again is a statement about the future. But no one can predict the future. All they can know for sure is that they are unhappy today. It helps to say, "I'm unhappy today," and leave it at that.

We do not get what we hope for, we get what you expect.

jed talks about the foreseeable future and how little there is that we can foresee.

Our brains needed to be able to do more than simply create models of the world. The power of imagination took root in the brains of our ancestors because it helped them predict uncertain futures.

Humans over evolutionary time have fallen much more while descending than while ascending. Jackson and Cormack (2007) predicted from this that people would overestimate heights much more while standing above than below. They found that the distance that people perceive while standing on top of a five-story building is equivalent to the actual height of a nine-story building.

We all thought Tony would be a force to be reckoned with when he grew up and we're still waiting.

This was not the adulthood that I had predicted for myself: an author of books, spending a week in Hawaii with his handsome longtime boyfriend before deciding which house to return to. I had wished for it, sure, but I also wished for a complete head transplant.

In The Past, Andy Warhol Will Be Psychic For 15 seconds

But she is not looking down, but looking up maybe, some kind of fortune teller who can read futures in passing dark clouds.

IQ is a very important predictor, not just of academic success, but of economic success.

According to my stars, I will live up to age 70.

Hmmm... I never get the answer I think I'm going to get.

I don't think anyone who I went to school with would have necessarily have been like, Oh, he's going to be an actor one day.' I am just as surprised as anyone else.

Anytime you kind of take the road that I've taken, people don't know what to expect.

Whatever Brett Favre does, it's a sign of the apocalypse.

The argument can be made: Maybe you want to trust the government, but you shouldn't because you don't know where things are going to go in the future.

Could the Comte de Vandenesse have seen himself, three years later, the brother-in-law of a Sieur Ferdinand DU Tillet, so-called, he might not have married his wife; but what man of rank in 1828 foresaw the strange upheavals which the year 1830 was destined to produce in the political condition, the fortunes, and the customs of France?

Is not the forehead the most prophetic feature of a man?