Quotes About Prediction

Economic, financial, and political predictors… are quite ashamed to say anything outlandish to their clients—and yet events, it turns out, are almost always outlandish.

In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right.

When you try to predict future E.R.A.'s with past E.R.A.'s, you're making a mistake.

Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.

The book references whales attacking humans, which has never happened... until July 2020 when orcas started ramming boats off Portugal and Spain. Perhaps some of the book's other predictions will come true.

One cannot be prepared for something while secretly believing it will not happen.

significado coloquial se aproxima más a "revoltoso". Yo no creo que los nombres predeterminen el destino, ni que mi padre adivinara de algún modo cuál iba a ser mi futuro, pero en años posteriores, tanto mis amigos como mis parientes llegaron a atribuir a ese nombre las muchas tempestades que he causado, y a

Den modell som bäst kunde förutsäga strukturen i de amerikanska senatorernas nätverk var faktiskt den som beskrev det sociala slickandet hos kor.

This is your wyrd," Hild said. "You'll be a queen. You'll have children.

Der Fortschrittler triumphiert immer und der Reaktionär hat immer recht. Recht haben heißt in der Politik nicht die Szene beherrschen, sondern vom ersten Akt an die Leichen des fünften vorhersagen.

To be on the left is to believe that the omens of catastrophe are omens of prosperity.

Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.

Just because something's always happened in the past doesn't mean it will definitely happen in the future.

Fractal image compression can even guess, by interpolation, what lies outside the frame of a picture.

the construction of a communist society would be completed 'in the main' by 1980

And the VCR did the same thing: the movie industry thought nobody would ever watch movies any more.

You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.

Having said that, the enchanted wanderer seemed to feel prophetic inspiration coming upon him anew and lapsed into quiet concentration, which none of his interlocutors ventured to interrupt with any new question. And what more could they have asked him? He had divulged the story of his past with all the candor of his simple soul, and his predictions remained in the hands of Him who conceals their destinies from the wise and prudent and only sometimes reveals them unto babes.

Coming events cast their Shadows before them. —Winston Churchill

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

History is a vast early warning system.

All of us have worries. We worry because we are intelligent beings. Intelligence predicts, that is its essence; the same intelligence that allows us to plan, hope, imagine, and hypothesize also allows us to worry and anticipate negative outcomes.

After there is great trouble among mankind, a greater one is prepared. The great mover of the universe will renew time, rain, blood, thirst, famine, steel weapons and disease. In the heavens, a fire seen