Quotes About Prediction

The weather doesn't respect political or geographic boundaries: we're all living under the same sky. And so weather prediction has been a marvel not only of technology but also of international cooeperation.

To tell you the truth, there are all these websites predicting my early death, and it's starting to work on me!

You never know what's going to happen the rest of the way. You can't predict. You don't know what Montreal is going to do to us this weekend, and you don't know what the Cubs are going to do to the Cardinals.

All the modelling we do shows that the climate is poised on the jump up to a new hot state. It is accelerating so fast that you could say that we are already in it.

Playing chess can make you a better poker player because it forces you to think several moves ahead. That kind of intense mental exercise develops a deeper level of thinking than is typically encountered when playing poker.

Let me just say that while I personally am very fond of John Boehner, his record of predicting what would happen if certain policies, economic policies were instituted is abysmal, okay?

I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like.

I was the guy that told Bill Clinton he was going to win. I had gotten the final polling numbers. He had a comfortable lead. He was not going to lose.

I don't believe in the polls. I try to concentrate on the day of elections.

National polls basically always misinterpret the final outcome or mis-predict the final outcome.

One thing the futurists never get right, though, is that the extreme desire for polyester only lasted a brief period in the '70s!

Falling asleep is like landing a plane. It takes time. You've got to sort of gradually descend. I think one of the problems with insufficient sleep is people are not very good at predicting how poorly they are doing when they are under-slept.

In fact, the sense of positioning, anticipation, is something very natural. I always knew where the ball was going to drop.

Humans are possessed, to some degree, with the power of foresight. Yet we so often learn things the hard way, through disaster.

Who ever knows what will happen with the economy, and will it affect the Internet? There's so much pouring into the Internet; I would doubt it, but I'm not the greatest predictor. But more than any media sector, I think the Internet will hold up.

I think the moment you're convinced something's going to be good is the moment that it's not going to be.

I remember people telling me that at 5 1/2 minutes long, 'Lightning Crashes' would never be a hit song.

At some point, you're going to see the ability for a fan sitting in a seat to bet, swiping his credit card, whether James Harden is going to score ten 3-pointers or not that night.

I don't think anybody has that crystal ball but the president.

The Cubs are due in sixty-two.

In many cultures, a total eclipse of the Sun predicts cataclysms and bad events.

You can't look into a crystal ball but what you can say is if money is put on the table and you get half your signings right then you are going to be better next time around.

What I didn't foresee in 2005 was the rise of the post-PC, which are all these tablets now. These are the things that actually will probably be the end of the consoles.

I don't know if everybody is ready to hear a woman tell them so-and-so is going to run off left tackle. But you know what? They're going to hear it.