Quotes About Prediction

The only certain thing about the future is that it will surprise even those who have seen furthest into it.

It is utterly implausible that a mathematical formula should make the future known to us, and those who think it can would once have believed in witchcraft.

Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past.

One might as well attempt to calculate mathematically the contingent forms of the tinkling bits of glass in a kaleidoscope as to look through the tube of the future and foretell its pattern.

It feels a little bit funny coming here and telling you guys that Linux and open source are the future of gaming. It's sort of like going to Rome and teaching Catholicism to the pope.

Good historians, I suspect, whether they think about it or not, have the future in their bones. Besides the question: Why? the historian also asks the question: Whither?

Nobody can really guarantee the future. The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them and then make our plans with confidence.

The boy (then a 12 year old boy named Anatoly Karpov)doesn't have a clue about Chess, and there's no future at all for him in this profession

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.

The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.

That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you.

Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

I've got this theory that there is a Volvo in any sane person's future.

The future is better dealt with using assumptions than forecasts.

One of the deepest functions of a living organisms is to look ahead... to produce future.

The future will show whether my foresight is as accurate now as it has proved heretofore.

To predict the future we would have to know today what we will learn tomorrow which will shape our future actions

We read the future by the past.

You can't really predict the future. All you can do is invent it.

Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.

Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.

Forecasting is very difficult, especially when it involves the future.

To regard one's immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.

You can only predict things after they have happened.