Quotes About Prediction

Vicky cost the taxpayers sixty-five million dollars, and she couldn't predict the time an hour from now. I

I propose that complex systems cannot be controlled or even predicted; first world nations' leaders only perform in a political theater of public deception; someone is at the helm and everything will be fine, just be a good citizen or subject and go back to your favorite sitcom, football team, or reality TV program.

If prevision be a fact, it is a fact which destroys absolutely the entire basis of all our past opinions of the universe.

Failure Is Not Predictive

Unlike some other gurus, he doesn't believe he is predicting the future; he is simply observing what is happening and making rational bets.

Readers know full well that when a writer takes pains to tell them a character doesn't expect the worst, she's about to get it.

Therefore, anticipate cheapness.

I can't predict the future and I don't have respect for people who try to.

To know what your partner will do is not a proof of love.

RESEARCH INDICATES THAT A WOMAN'S INTUITIVE SENSE OF WHETHER OR NOT HER PARTNER WILL BE VIOLENT TOWARD HER IS A SUBSTANTIALLY MORE ACCURATE PREDICTOR OF FUTURE VIOLENCE THAN ANY OTHER WARNING SIGN.

How can anyone ever predict the future?... It's mind boggling. The only explanation that makes sense is that the events have already occurred in one way or another.

GUESS ONE DAY

Louis XV's contention that after him would come the deluge

An adaptive agent is constantly playing a game with its environment. What exactly does that mean? Distilled to the essence, what actually has to happen for game-playing agents to survive and prosper? Two things, Holland decided: prediction and feedback.

The gut speaks—and rarely lies—of what is and what is to come.

Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.

I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy - worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region.

It is important to remember that actions taken today depend largely on expectations about the future.

When the Führer predicted a quick victory over England, implying Spain could wait not longer if it wanted to share in the triumph, Franco doubted the scenario, before adding that even if the Germans were to capture London, the British would continue fighting from Canada.

We can measure the fine structure constant with very great precision, but so far none of our theories has provided an explanation of its measured value. One of the aims of superstring theory is to predict this quantity precisely. Any theory that could do that would be taken very seriously indeed as a potential 'Theory of Everything'.

But you just watch, little girl. I'm goin' to show 'em. In five years they'll come crawlin' to me on their bellies. I don't know what it is, but I got a kind of feel for the big money.

the book of Daniel is the key to prophetic interpretation, and proper understanding of its revelation would do much to help the interpretation of other prophetic portions.

We can sometimes recognize the looks of a century ago on a modern face; but never those of a century to come.

It's not like writing a novel. It's easy to know the future when I'm making up the story.