Quotes About Prediction

Often sound advice turns out to be totally wrong. Sometimes things turn out in such a way that only a fool would predict. Which is why fools, too, have their place in analysis and debate.

The line of head is strong, but the line of heart is weak. And most importantly, the line of life is short. The stars do not seem to be right.

The willingness to become something in life is a prediction to your success.

He says it while Churchill is rejoicing war will not come

When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'

My mom's gonna be the biggest star - mark my words right now!

Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet.

some say that the world may end with fire but some say with ice.

La predicción y la prevención del comportamiento violento forman una parte central de la práctica en psicología y en psiquiatría forense.

There's a 30% chance that it's already raining.

I keep saying the sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians. People think I'm joking, but who would've guessed that computer engineers would've been the sexy job of the 1990s?

Computer modelling for weather forecasting, and indeed for climate forecasting, has reached its limits.

If, for some reason, we make some big mistake and IBM wins, my personal feeling is that we are going to enter a computer Dark Ages for about twenty years.

No one will need more than 637Kb of memory for a personal computer

Bill Gates did predict that computers for people made sense because he wrote a basic.

In the decade ahead I can predict that we will provide over twice the productivity improvement that we provided in the '90s.

There are two things in particular that it [the computer industry] failed to foresee: one was the coming of the Internet(...); the other was the fact that the century would end.

They're not predicting global warming based on what's happened in the past; they're basing it on what their computer predictions say, and nothing more.

The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.

People exaggerate their confidence in their plans - something we call the planning fallacy... The existence of the plan tends to induce overconfidence.

Confidence in a forecast rises with the amount of information that goes into it. But the accuracy of the forecast stays the same.

In the stars is written the death of every man.

People have been predicting the death of television for 20 years now, and so far it's been entirely wrong. But it does seem viewership habits are starting to change.

America wasn't a fascist country and wasn't going to be, regardless of what Alvin had predicted. There was a new president and a new Congress but each was bound to follow the law as set down in the Constitution. They were Republican, they were isolationist, and among them, yes, there were anti-Semites—as indeed there were among the southerners in FDR's own party—but that was a long way from their being Nazis.