Quotes About Prediction

You can only anticipate what someone is going to do if you know exactly what that someone has just done.' --Skulduggery

A theory is the academic equivalent of a guess.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

Forecasters tend to learn less and less about more and more, until in the end they know nothing about everything.

Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance.

We won't know for a few years.

What I sell is the higher knowledge of knowing whats next and not following the trend of whats now.

Most science fiction is based on our knowledge now and uses that to project the future.

The most serious failure of leadership is the failure to foresee

There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.

Human reason can neither predict nor deliberately shape its own future. Its advances consist in finding out where it has been wrong.

I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

that was the time calculated by the barber who based his estimate on the length of his customers' stubble.

Enjoy the present moment instead of wasting it by trying to predict future unsavory events that may or may not happen.

There are things you're just positive will happen to you. Then there's that second when you realize, Jesus Christ. Maybe they won't.

You call them friends, Hannah," Mom lashes out, confronting me from the doorway with hands on hips. "But your connection to them is situational. Years from now you'll look back and marvel at what you could have seen in most of these people." "You're probably right," I say, because Mom's predictions have turned out to be right a surprising number of times. "But in three weeks, when the party is, they'll still be our friends.

It's 1991, and a lot of things that are about to happen haven't happened yet.

I'm not telling you what to do, I'm just telling you what you're going to do. There's a difference.

I could see, already, how this was going to end. "You'll have checkmate in three moves... Luckily for me," I told him, my fingers closing around my own queen, "I'll have checkmate in two.

Ik zag nu al hoe het zou aflopen. 'Over drie zetten zet u me schaakmat.' ... 'Maar gelukkig,' zei ik, terwijl ik mijn eigen koningin van het bord plukte, 'zet ik u in twee zetten schaakmat.

It's wrong to anticipate evil.

He little imagined how

Inktvlekken, in vredesnaam. Mijn leven is aanzienlijk korter dan het uwe, dokter. Ik verspil liever geen kostbare tijd aan waardeloze onzintestjes. Dan kunnen we net zo goed theeblaadjes lezen of de toekomst voorspellen aan de hand van de ingewanden van een kalkoen. - Artemis