Quotes About Prediction

Had you been able to guess bits of my destiny, Perhaps you would bear your mediocrity with more ease.

Engineering is a predictive science, not a manipulative art.

Imagine if the dinosaurs had tried picturing the rulers of their planet 100 million years hence. They'd undoubtedly envision these creatures as... dinosaurs! Conceiving of aliens as polished versions of ourselves is appealing, but unconvincing.

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.

There is a very beautiful expression in the Hebrew language that's borrowed from spoken Torah... 'All is predicted, and permission is given at any point to change anything.' I think I live by this idiom in the sense that there is always a goal; there is always something to look forward to in life and my creative search, and that goal is there.

Very near Auch, Lectoure, and Mirande, great fire will fall from the sky for three nights. A most stupendous and astonishing event will occur. Very soon afterwards, the earth will tremble.

In order to sharpen its prediction skills, our brains constantly build models, or 'templates,' of the world. The better the template, the better the performance. And now we know playing action video game actually fosters better templates.

My view was that if you're going to make a mistake in your predictions, make sure you make them the right way. Don't put yourself into a situation where, in fact, you say you're going to do something, and then all of a sudden you can't.

While you may be able to say with precision what the average man will do, "you can never foretell what any one man will do.

Well, that's the problem with postulatin', Hannibal. Brings up trouble that ain't happened yet and likely won't ever. Why bother with it?

No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would

Don't go there Rule" Lawe warned him softly. " I don't think your horoscope declared today to be a good day to die.

Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast, Is that portentous phrase, 'I told you so,' Utter'd by friends, those prophets of the past, Who, 'stead of saying what you now should do, Own they foresaw that you would fall at last, And solace your slight lapse 'gainst 'bonos mores,' With a long memorandum of old stories.

What all the wise men promised has not happened, and what all the damned fools said would happen has come to pass.

You predicted quick victory. Now it's going to get hopelessly complicated. Jesus, don't you know any better than that by now?

Just remember, Harry, I told you this was a bad idea." "Preemptive I-told-you-sos," I said. "Now I've seen everything.

Michael was looking at me very oddly as he lowered the Sword. "What?" I asked him. "Charity," he predicted, "is not going to be pleased.

We cannot know the mystery of the future.

The only One who can predict the future with absolute certainty is the One who controls it

people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.

If history has a habit of repeating itself, doesn't someone have to stay behind to shout out a warning?

Sometimes Chris wished he could sneak a peek at the back of the book, so to speak, and see how it was all going to turn out, so that he wouldn't have to bother going through the motions.

There is no need to be a psychic in order to predict that your 21st Birthday party will be the most awesome party ever. Happy 21st !

The one who anticipates the action wins. The one who does not, loses.