Quotes About Prediction

McMahon predicted that "total power in the hands of total evil will equal destruction." The

If some things could change, so could other things. What right had I to predict the future and predict it so nihilistically? As I got older I would probably change in hundreds of ways I couldn't foresee. All I had to do was wait it out.

No matter what you do—somebody, somewheres, knew that you would.

Less noticed was Tetlock's other finding: predicting the future wasn't just lucky guessing. Some people did much, much better than average.115 He called them superforecasters.

In geopolitics, the same information is not available to everyone, regardless of how much time they have. Intelligence is in the business of unlocking other people's secrets and protecting our own. Asymmetric information is the name of the game. And in a world of asymmetric information, prediction is much more difficult and miscalculation much more likely.

It's difficult for analysts to get better at predicting when they don't know if their past predictions were ever any good.30

the futurists predict the future of nations, but is difficult for them to predict their future

But my foreknowledge must not encroach upon their free will. "In order not to impair human liberty, I will be ignorant of what I know, I will thicken upon my eyes the veils I have pierced, and in my blind clearsightedness I will let myself be surprised by what I have foreseen.

Hij zei alleen: 'De moffen kunnen het niet winnen. Ze zijn zo stom. Even hebben stomme mensen altijd een voordeel, omdat intelligente mensen niet kunnen voorspellen wat ze gaan doen, juist omdat het zo stom is. Met schaken wint een beginner het soms ook ineens van iemand die het al goed kan. Maar dat is maar één keer. En op den duur zullen de geallieerden het zeker winnen van die hysterische varkens.' Ik hoopte dat hij gelijk had.

Wenn du glaubst, du weißt, was die Zukunft bringt, dann lacht Gott herzlich und beweist dir das Gegenteil.

Every science fiction is a reading of the period that produced it.

I make a prediction here and now, and, my friends, I want you to watch the proceedings of Congress in these coming weeks of this extra session, or of the next regular session, to see whether I am right or not.

I see girls that I know - I absolutely know - will be star models within just a matter of weeks, and they always are.

Certain characteristic properties of elements can be foretold from their atomic weights.

I'm not superstitious about anything in my life - except for playoff hockey. I get really kind of sketchy and weird about it. I don't like talking about it. I don't like making predictions.

Somehow, I always knew I would get married by the time I was 27. Even in college, I had this weird thing in my head that I would get married when I was 27, and hopefully my career would be stable, and I'll have kids by 30. And that's exactly what has happened.

I have a really weird thing with my dreams. I've had vivid dreams in the past that actually came true days after the dream.

One of the weird things about being a designer is guessing what the world will want about a year in advance of when they will want it. It becomes almost a psychological test in a way - how do I feel now and how do I want to feel then.

There is no way I could have predicted the amazing reception and support that 'Quantico' has received this season or even the way that I have been welcomed into the fold here in America.

We really can't forecast all that well, and yet we pretend that we can, but we really can't.

I'm well-travelled so I can see places coming up. I went to St. Croix in the West Indies at Christmas and it had been hit by a really bad tornado. Values there have gone down but I guarantee they will be up again in eight years. So I'll get in now while it's cheap as chips.

Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise.

That a great battle must soon be fought no one could doubt; but, in the apparent and perhaps real absence of plan on the part of Lee, it was impossible to foretell the precise scene of the encounter.

I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her grandma could give someone the evil eye, and I'd better not cross her because she had some of that blood in her. Mother always believed that she could predict the future, and she had dreams that came true.