Quotes About Prediction

Augur may be destined to become the web's answer to gambling prohibition—it will do to the betting man what the silk road did to the drug user—but you'd never know it from talking to the developers of the system.

Admittedly, there was an element of counting chickens before they hatched involved in my "next couple of minutes" prediction, since there were still plenty of places that bodies could be hidden. Or, for that matter, sitting out in the open with "Surprise!" written on the floor in their blood. But like I've always said, it's easier to count eggs that are just lying there in the nest than baby chickens that are running all over the place.

Some things come true. They might come true in ways different than we might have predicted, but some things do come true

Only an estimate could be made of the wind's actual speed, though it was at least 65 knots.

Prophesy if you dare.

I just want to say it: I knew what was coming.

0001 knew what would happen. If everything went the way she planned it to go and if each part of this giant machine she's assembled performed her role effectively, she knew very well where the knife would wind up, but how did she know Harris Blanchard would be there?

I think you're freaked about what happened at Cambridge. I think it scared you." "I've been through worse, Bex," I said, joining her on the lower stairs. "Way worse." "Oh, not the attack." Bex raised her finger in contradiction. "What happened before the attack. I think you saw the future. Which is kind of freaky when - two months ago - you didn't think you were going to have one.

I looked at the race, and I said, 'Look. Hillary Clinton is going to be hard to beat.' Another bad prediction on my part, because she's turned out a lot weaker than I thought.

I think if you look back through time, the history of income, wealth and taxation is full of surprise. So I am not terribly impressed by those who know in advance what will or will not happen.

What Hollywood designs today, you will be wearing tomorrow.

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

One can't predict the weather more than a few days in advance.

I'm not an economist and we all know economists were created to make weather forecasters look good.

I like the fact that the weather forecast is always wrong. In a world of BlackBerry insta-connection, Google research, and Hadron Colliders, it is a daily reminder of the ultimate ignorance of man. It is a signpost towards all the enormous things we cannot understand.

You can never predict how market will react. You can model it. You may try to predict it, but weather and markets and risk, only God knows because only he has seen tomorrow.

I've never been one to bet on the weather.

By using big data, it will also be possible to predict adverse weather conditions, rerouting ships to avoid delays, and monitor fuel data, thereby allowing companies to optimize their supply chains and the way they drive their business.

You can't say for certain what will happen to the weather in the long term.

Some things, like the orbits of the planets, can be calculated far into the future. But that's atypical. In most contexts, there is a limit. Even the most fine-grained computation can only forecast British weather a few days ahead. There are limits to what can ever be learned about the future, however powerful computers become.

I find that predicting the course of our lives is like predicting the weather. You might be able to predict your future in the short term, but the longer you look ahead, the less likely you are to be correct.

The Fifties and Sixties were years of unreal optimism about weather forecasting. Newspapers and magazines were filled with hope for weather science, not just for prediction but for modification and control. Two technologies were maturing together: the digital computer and the space satellite.

I predict that as warm weather returns to Europe, so will the flood of Middle Eastern immigrants.

By converging people, process, and data, the benefits the Internet of Everything delivers to humanity are seemingly infinite. Imagine being able to track and understand, and then predict, long-term weather patterns. Farmers will be able to plant crops that have the greatest chance for success.