Quotes About Prediction

Prognostics do not always prove prophecies—at least the wisest prophets make sure of the event first.

People who see what's coming have faulty chronology, that is all.

If everyone likes it, it's probably because it has been doing well. Most people seem to think that outstanding performance to dates presages outstanding future performance. Actually, it's more likely that outstanding future performance to date has borrowed from the future and thus presages subpar performance from her on out.

I may be proven wrong, but I may be proven right.

Few at this point had the foresight to realize that the path laid out by Providence led into the abyss.

With enough information, it is almost impossible "not" to predict people's action.

Con suficiente información es casi imposible "no" predecir las acciones de la gente.

They were anticipating a different kind of immediate aftermath of the fall of Baghdad, it turned out to be not exactly as they had anticipated.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

Within two years, they would be attacking us . The emperor has seen what we can do and he will not make the same mistakes again. One chance we have made for ourselves, Khasar. You cannot wound a bear and run. It will chase you down.

None of the things one frets about ever happen. Something one's never thought of does.

Although self-reported endorsement of sexist attitudes didn't predict hiring bias, self-reported objectivity in decision making did.

There is in fact a category of people who get unusually close to the truth about themselves and the world. Their self-perceptions are more balanced, they assign responsibility for success and failure more even-handedly, and their predictions for the future are more realistic. These people are living testimony to the dangers of self-knowledge. They are the clinically depressed.34

There is in fact a category of people who get unusually close to the truth about themselves and the world. Their self-perceptions are more balanced, they assign responsibility for success and failure more evenhandedly, and their predictions for the future are more realistic. These people are living testimony to the dangers of self-knowledge. They are the clinically depressed.

We may think we are praising and encouraging the young by predicting great things for them, but the burden of our expectations may shame and crush them.

Voltaire expected that within fifty years of his lifetime there would not be one Bible in the world. His house is now a distribution centre for Bibles in many languages.

Betamax is the wave of the future

Oprah's quitting in 2011. Now we know why the Mayans ended their calendar in 2012

Whenever anyone argues with you about something, just tell them it is foretold—usually works.

I wanted to talk to her about Virgil's prophecy.

Charles Darwin's early academic record was so poor that his father predicted he would be a disgrace to his family.

There's no point in making predictions. It's not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.

Sometime in the future - 25 50, 75 years hence - what will the situation be like then? By that time the Chinese will have the capability of delivery too.

If you want to predict a person's behavior, identify his or her incentives. Leo