Quotes About Prediction

No es buen momento para un terremoto," Lupe used to say. "It's not a good moment for an earthquake.

The only purpose of economic forecasts is to give astrology a better image.

La qualifica più comune di chi fa previsioni in campo economico consiste non già nel sapere, ma nel non sapere di non sapere. Il suo grande vantaggio è che tutte le previsioni, giusta o sbagliate che siano, vengono rapidamente dimenticate.

We know the future only by the past we project into it.

Xerxes tinha razão. Se tentarmos prever tudo, arriscamo-nos a não fazer nada. Mas também a tinha Artabano. Se não nos prepararmos para tudo o que pode acontecer, garantimos que alguma parte disso acontecerá.

And West Nile will never be a major threat; it is not a disease that will ever explode through the human population. Yet it was receiving more research dollars than influenza.

people on average prefer to bet on their own judgment over an equally probable chance event when they consider themselves competent about the event being judged.

The Earth's population will be culled from today's 6.6 billion to as few as 500 million, with most of the survivors living in the far latitudes - Canada, Iceland, Scandinavia, the Arctic Basin.

We usually get what we anticipate.

If ... the past may be no Rule for the future, all Experience becomes useless and can give rise to no Inferences or Conclusions.

The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from an investigation of the governing physics.

Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.

Businesses should follow and learn from others successes and failures in order to better understand and predict their own.

A plan is only a scenario, and almost by definition, it is optimistic... As a result, scenario planning can lead to a serious underestimate of the risk of failure.

The weatherman is not only blamed for his failure to foretell, he is blamed for the weather itself.

And as we should all know by now, anytime you predict failure you have an excellent chance of being right.

As an investor I cannot tell that. We cannot predict the success or failure.

Nightmares are just a prediction of what life could be, now when you wake up it's up to you whether to live it or change it.

If you show someone the future, they have no future. If you take away the mystery, you take away hope.

I watched him hang on the other man's words. He is too trusting. But I would not be the raven on his shoulder all the time, predicting gloom.

Through all aspects of society be it art, design, the financial markets, government, technology or communications we are witnessing unprecedented global transformation - the result of which is impossible to predict.

He thought astrology was a load of bosh! Didn't believe in stars and planets telling his fortune or anyone else's.

In a country of thirty-two million households, A&P served five million customers a day. In 1929, it became, as John had predicted, the first retailer anywhere to sell $1 billion of merchandise in a single year.28

Predictions are difficult to make, particularly when they concern the future." —Pierre Dac