Quotes About Prediction

I can say confidently that I don't think Austin Corbett is going to play tackle in the NFL.

I am convinced the prophets of doom have to be taken seriously.

It always takes longer than you expect, even if you take Hofstadter's Law into account.

I like science fiction. Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick and Vonnegut, and I really like Margaret Atwood, 'The Handmaid's Tale.' And you know, so much of science fiction has to do with predicting what's to come, so I think that's really interesting.

I think if you're talented and not desperate to do any film that comes your way, and are doing justice to all your roles, then you're fine, because you can't predict the rest. You also can't predict the audience's reaction.

I don't think the Taliban will ever come back to take Afghanistan, no.

There will never be talking pictures.

I'm betting that in two years I'll be talking to you about a film that I shot on an iPhone. It's absolutely coming, I have no doubt in my mind.

I've played against Griezmann several times in Spain. He's not very tall but he's very adept at figuring out where the ball will be.

I've been the same size since I was 12. They thought I was going to be 7 feet tall. I never grew another inch.

Within two months,' Papen confidently told a worried conservative acquaintance, 'we will have pushed Hitler so far into a corner that he'll squeak.'172

What we know for sure is that rulers did not appreciate having astrologers forecast the time and manner of their demise. As

You do the math, you expect the trouble.

You had expected something else, anything else

We've read the back of the book, we know what's going to happen.

I have it on good authority that Victor's going to have car trouble. Also that Robert really likes Cheerios, so if you want some, you're out of luck. He doesn't seem like the sharing type.

Shouldn't that be flipped right-side up?" I asked. "No," she said, eyes on the cards. After several moments of heavy silence, said, "You will destroy that which is undead." I waited about thirty seconds for her to continue, but she didn't. "Wait, that's it?" She nodded. "That's what the cards say to me.

Her eyes flicked over the cards, looked at Dimitri, then looked back at the cards. Her expression was blank. "You will lose what you value most, so treasure it while you can." She pointed to the Wheel of Fortune card. "The wheel is turning, always turning.

But saying one thing before it happens and then actually having that thing happen are two different things.

You sure have a high opinion of yourself, thinking it's going to happen again.

Mi reputación ya está formada, Rose. Me puse mis metas y luche por ellas, hace ya mucho tiempo. Lo que será de tu vida aún está por ver

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

Logic is a feeble reed, friend. Logic proved that airplanes can't fly and that H-bombs won't work and that stones don't fall out of the sky. Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow.

Logic is a feeble reed, friend. "Logic" proved that airplanes can't fly and that H-bombs won't work and that stones don't fall out of the sky. Logic is a way of saying that anything that didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow.