Quotes About Prediction

I say I write extrapolations. I look at data points and ask what the world could look like.

I don't think the economy telegraphs very clearly where it's going.

Vettai' is a lovely film! I knew it would click big time.

A fortune-teller said my future lay in comedy.

I was always confident that I knew. I never expected this.

When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, 'Congratulations, you have an actor!'

The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.

I admit, I'm suspicious of any career planning that involves chasing the next 'big thing,' just because it's so hard to predict what the next big thing is going to be a couple of years - or even six months - out.

I've spoken to people who I swear can tell the future.

Madonna had to break through; I knew she was going to make it big, because I could see how ambitious she was, in a very genuine and sweet way.

It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong - but that is the way to bet.

Politics is a pendulum that swings constantly. It's really hard to say what's going to happen in four years or in two years or in one year.

I remember Agassi playing Federer in Basel, Switzerland in 1998, and Andre was already saying at that time that Federer would be tough. Usually at the time players are 17, you can see if they will be great.

When we think about online learning, it's such 'early days.' Bill Gates is a wildly smart insightful guy. Yet, even a guy as smart and insightful as that, 30 years ago can say things like 'Who's every going to need more than 640K of memory?'

There's only one problem with market timing: It doesn't work.

I can't fall any father than the ground,' says the wrangler to the men who predict that he's going to be thrown. There's a limit to everything, he means; and when all is said and done, strength is simply not to be afraid.

Piensa mal y acertarás.

A hotel mini bar allows you to see what a can of Pepsi will cost in twenty years.

Asset allocation eliminates the need to predict the near-term future direction of the financial markets and eliminates the risk of being in the wrong market at the wrong time.

All this – with much more in these chapters – makes up a wonderfully varied but coherent evocation of the biblical and theological meaning of the divine judgment John's prophecy pronounces on Rome; but if we try to read it as prediction of how that judgment will occur we turn it into a confused muddle and miss its real point.

The point is not to predict a sequence of events. The point is to evoke and to explore the meaning of the divine judgment which is impending on the sinful world.

if we try to read it as prediction of how that judgment will occur we turn it into a confused muddle and miss its real point.

Evolution never looks to the future.

They will not be identical unless by chance: human prediction about other humans is not good enough. Why that is sometimes hard for readers inexperienced in government to see, I cannot tell (xvi).