Quotes About Prediction

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

The lead singer of Creed says he won't endorse President Obama. Well that settles it -- Obama will not win the 1998 presidential election.

I told him he'd have a heart attack a year ago, but unfortunately he lived a year longer.

I don't read economic forecasts. I don't read the funny papers.

I am not going to say I told you so, but I did.

The margin of error in astrology is plus or minus one hundred percent.

Without him here, it is impossible to know how fast he will play it, approximately.

We will see how the issue will turn out when they come to Baghdad.

I'm a psychic amnesiac. I know in advance what I'll forget.

I see no reason to suppose these machines will ever force themselves into general use.

The way he's swinging the bat, he won't get a hit until the 20th century.

Eric Show will be 0 for 10 if that pop fly ever comes down.

When I was little, that was one thing that I was told in a vision: I was going to have my own show when I grew up. And it's going to be funny.

I don't think the heavy stuff is gonna come down for quite a while!" ? Bill Murray character in Cadyshack

How do you know?""Well, I don't, I'm making this up, but I bet I'm right.

Its Batteries! I just know it!

The past resembles the future more than one drop of water resembles another.

All a company report and balance sheet can tell you is the past and the present. They cannot tell future.

We must prove our predictions about the future with action.

Eighty percent of what everyone's talking about never happens. I don't mean in terms of product development that's happening right now, I'm talking about the far-flung visions of the future.

Postulate 1. All chance systems of causes are not alike in the sense that they enable us to predict the future in terms of the past.

The future is deterministic in principle, but not in practice.

You have to make smart decisions, but you never know what will happen in the future.

I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.