Quotes About Prediction

It is tribute to how far we have come in theoretical physics that it now takes enormous machines and a great deal of money to perform experiments whose results we can not predict.

One day ladies will take their computers for walks in the park and tell each other, "My little computer said such a funny thing this morning".

From the calm morning, the end will come when of the dancing horse the number of circles will be nine.

Whatever you do, think of next morning's headlines.

My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.

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.

You never know what's going to happen. My mother was an English teacher. If someone had told her that I was going to write a book, she would never have believed that. So you can never say never.

Any astronomer can predict with absolute accuracy just where every star in the universe will be at 11.30 tonight. He can make no such prediction about his teenage daughter.

My mother always told me growing up I had a punchable face. Little did I know she was predicting my television career.

My mother told me that when I was born a wave of feeling came over her. She just knew that I was destined to be an actress.

A teacher told my mother that I would never become successful, which illustrates the difficulty of long-run forecasting on inadequate data.

Fear is the mother of foresight.

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

Instead of reflecting on the past, predict the future.

Our expectations determine how we respond. Be careful what you expect.

The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?

It's human nature to extrapolate the recent past into the future, but it's terrible that managements go along with this.

We should expect the best and the worst from mankind as from the weather.

If one could divine the nature of the economic forces in the world, one could foretell the future.

Oft a little morning rain Foretells a pleasant day.

I know the nature of comedy, and you never know what will happen with the next movie or whether people will find it funny.

You can predict anything in this world but not the nature's behaviour

A lifetime isn't enough to know how a person will behave.

Within 10 years computers won't even keep us as pets.