Quotes About Prediction

A tree doesn't make a thunderstorm, but any fool knows where lighting´s going to strike".

Fault isn't the issue. A tree doesn't make a thunderstorm, but any fool knows where lightning's going to strike.

Un árbol no provoca una tormenta, pero cualquier idiota sabe dónde va a caer el rayo.

Expect disaster every seven years,'" he said. "It is an old saying, and true enough.

Este presentimiento resultaría cierto, aunque se basaba en premisas totalmente falsas.

The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it.

Also, if you're going to say that animal studies predict events in people, then we should stop eating chocolate, which can cause heart arrhythmias and occasionally death in dogs.

Projection bias is what behavioral scientists call the scenario when we mistakenly use our current feelings to project how we will feel in the future.

One thing that's certain about the future: it will have more history than the present.

El propio Kondratiev se mostró siempre exquisitamente cauto en cuanto a las implicaciones de su teoría. Jamás afirmó que sirviera para predecir acontecimientos, aunque, desde luego, predijo la Gran Depresión de la década de 1930 diez años antes de que esta se produjera.

I can't predict the future.

Most things in the world are not unexpected if one thinks carefully about them. Even something one would call unusual- if one things about it, it's really just a thing that was supposed to happen. Encountering unusual events often means you didn't think things through.

The future isn't carved in stone, only your epitaph.

Alexander was right, she thought, He has been right about everything. Everything that he told me would happen has come to pass.

Nowhere is the nexus between statistics and data science stronger than in the realm of prediction — specifically the prediction of an outcome (target) variable based on the values of other "predictor" variables.

I have traveled widely. I have seen this country in its infancy. I tell you what it will become. The public squares will be occupied by an uneducated class who will not be able to quote a line of Shakespeare.

Forecasting is not a respectable human activity and not worthwhile beyond the shortest of periods.

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.

The prognosticating groundhog is thought to derive from a German tradition that if the sun comes out on Candlemas Day and the hedgehog sees his shadow, six more weeks of winter will follow.

nada atrapa más rápido nuestra atención que la necesidad de saber qué pasará después.

que nada atrapa más rápido nuestra atención que la necesidad de saber qué pasará después.

The writers see where we're headed before the scientists do. What we discover in nature is not really a matter of what exists; what we find is determined by our ability to understand.

Professional psychics use astrology all the time. Why? I don't know. I would think that a true psychic would be the last person who would have any use for astrology, even if it were true.

The prophets are but wind, for the word is not in them. So let their own predictions befall them.”