Quotes About Prediction

Interestingly, a number of the people I know - probably you do, too - who predicted that Trump would win were precisely Russians and Ukrainians who found the political style familiar and just asked, 'Well, why couldn't it work there?' They were the ones who turned out to be right.

A good deal of my effort goes into the selection of films, because these things cannot be just predicted, so I am careful about the movies I finally do. Next year, too, I will have four or five films where I play different roles.

Russian scorn for liberal democracy has a long history, and a certain kind of Russian disdain for the West is nothing new. As far back as 1920, Lenin declared that parliaments were 'historically obsolete' and predicted that it was just a matter of time before they disappeared.

It is not that Covid is going to impede the progress of humanity. It is not as much a changing event as it was being predicted, according to me.

I think a lot of people have predicted the demise of cash, and they've frequently been wrong. But there's no question that the smartphone is leading to the digitization of money. You really now have all the power of a bank branch in the palm of your hand.

To me, the most exciting thing about the discovery of the Higgs particle is that its existence was predicted fifty years before its discovery through experiment.

The reality is that our Founders always predicted that one day there would be a president like Trump, and that's why they designed the system of government the way they designed it.

The architects of Brexit are a cocktail of lying racists and buffoons. I don't think even someone as cynical as me could have predicted how deeply stupid these people are.

When Durant was in college, I predicted on 'First Take' he would lead the NBA in scoring and began calling him my favorite player.

As much as I think the sports world loves to try to predict everything, there are still some parts of it that can't be predicted.

Of course, I always hoped Squid Game would do well. But no one could have predicted it would be this big. In just one month, everything changed.

Prediction by analogy -creativity - is so pervasive we normally don't notice it.

As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction.

Prediction? The Democrats will win. I think it will be a close win, both for the House and for the Senate.

I think science fiction is very bad at prediction.

My faith in the economic potential of the low carbon economy is not an untested prediction.

I'm a historian. The act of predicting the future discomfits me, in any event - and the bigger the prediction, the more distrusting I am.

I think there's always been, to some degree, a misunderstanding about what science fiction is all about, in that it has been judged by the general public as being literature of prediction, and it isn't.

When TV came, people said who will go to theatres to watch movies? When the Internet came, they said the same. And now it's the digital media... The doomsday predictions are always there but I don't think people will stop going to cinema halls because that is one experience you can't get at home.

Thinking things like, 'I will never get hired for this job,' or 'Nobody ever listens to me,' can alter your behavior in a way that makes those predictions come true.

Having established that good ideas do indeed come in from the cold, start on the fringes and become mainstream, can we make any predictions about what the next move will be?

Never make predictions, especially about the future.

I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results.

I can't make any predictions, I'm not an astrologer.