Quotes About Prediction

If you can look into the seeds of time and say which grain will grow and which will not speak then to me.

While politicians may be forgiven for failing to predict the future - who can, alas? - it is amazing that they defiantly ignore the past.

I remember mentioning to friends back in 1938 that the world chess champion would be beaten by a computer in 50 years time. Today we know computers are not far from this goal.

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess

One day soon the Gillette company will announce the development of a razor that, thanks to a computer microchip, can actually travel ahead in time and shave beard hairs that don't even exist yet

This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.

The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.

I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.

The hardest Silence to predict is usually from the one you love most.

Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.

Luther padded toward the door and his tail wagged slightly before it stilled. "For real. We can smell things before they happen. And if you don't go after her, I smell failure in your future.

A rooster crowing in a doorway means visitors are coming. An old Scottish superstition. The

And Dan. 8:25 also writes concerning the Antichrist that he will kill the majority of people not through poverty but through an abundance of everything.

Moore's Law, the 1965 prediction that the amount of computing power you can buy for a dollar will double every 18 months. Gordon Moore's formula has surprised everyone with its consistency.

No matter how great a gift or skill, it's impossible to foresee every outcome.

Now I predict the future / merely by listening to echoes. A slamming door / can tell you everything you need to know. It's not a trick / only a simple matter of wisdom, an obsessive attention / to dreams. — Mary Jo Bang, from "The Oracle," Apology for Want: Poems . (Middlebury; 1st edition July 15, 1997)

Men would be as gods, if they had foreknowledge.

Trutwib went on speaking, her voice picked up volume and power until I heard her prediction ring out, her words that changed everything. "The one who lives under your wing, my lady, shall grow and grow until she outshines you. You will die, forgotten and obscure, and she shall blaze like the sun.

If you keep having these positive thoughts all the time, miraculously you will naturally be able to do as your thoughts predicted.

My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor.

It is hard to predict, isn't it?' she asked, looking blankly in front of her as she moved a black bishop across the board to take a white pawn. 'The things that will make us happy'.

It's hard to predict, isn't? The things that will make us happy

While fear might want us to imagine the worst is certain, the future—like everything else—remains uncertain, unpredictable, open, free.