Quotes About Prediction

Robots will neither be common nor very good in 2014, but they will be in existence.

Economists are very good at saying that something cannot go on forever, but not so good at saying when it will stop.

Could we have prevented in 100% certainty? I don't think anything is that certain. However, we would have had a very, very good chance for preventing it.

I have joked before that there is a good chance that I might retire before Tendulkar.

I said '17 - right now, this year, "'17 is going to be a disaster." I'm very good at this stuff.

I have no idea how long Putin will last. The good news is, Putin doesn't know either. It will be sudden and it won't be peaceful. He has burned his bridges.

The good news is, the cake is baked. Barack Obama will not be reelected president.

I had no idea that it was gonna take off the way it did. I thought we made a good movie.

So how are things going along? Pretty good. Going to be good tomorrow? Hope so.

I'm not a very good predictor in any area of art, particularly my own. I don't know how to evaluate that.

An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.

No single piece of macroeconomic advice given by the experts to their government has ever had the results predicted.

To listen to the interests of all marks an ordinary government; to foresee them marks a great government.

No intelligence system can predict what a government will do if it doesn't know itself.

FISHER SEES STOCKS PERMANENTLY HIGH

History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.

We are really on track for a soft landing. There are no balloons popping.

Great events have sent before them their announcements.

There's a great deal to say in the Bible about the signs we're to watch for, and when these signs all converge at one place we can be sure that we're close to the end of the age.

If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again.

You can go to the end of time, the last World Cup in the history of mankind, and the All-Blacks will be favourites for it.

History is a vast early warning system.

I predict that this will be the greatest book ever and it will sell more than any other book in history

History can tell us what happened in the past. But it cannot assert that it must happen again in the future.