Quotes About Prediction

I tell people all the time I don't make predictions.

We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.

I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.

I think Barack Obama is a one-term President.

My experience would say to me, never presume to have an answer to what the people are actually going to do.

If you can predict where the market's going, just do what you can predict. If you can't, which is the presumption of dollar cost averaging or time cost averaging, either one, then you're trying to ease in. But if the market rises more than it falls most of the time, easing in is, by definition, a loser's game.

Being around a church culture, even leading a gathering of believers, I've gotten pretty good at predicting what's going to happen in a church service.

Economic forecasting has actually got pretty good over the years, though admittedly, we don't always get it right.

I think Daniel Craig is brilliant as Bond. I remember at the beginning, they were all saying, 'Oh, he won't work,' and I thought, 'Yeah, you watch.'

The world that our children living in is going to be completely different because of big data.

It's not easy to decide what is best for you in the future.

Eventually, I think I'll probably end up at centre-half. By the time I get to 28 or 29, I imagine I'll be a defender.

I feel like I know what defensive backs are going to do before they do it.

Well, the thought that everybody might have a personal computer at their desk or their home was certainly not on the mainstream of anybody's activity at that time.

When we get to the future, I'll determine the future.

It's no good me talking about my future. I don't determine my future, other people do.

People are building apps that are doing super-crazy things, and there's a lot of talk about modeling and microtargeting. Facebook can predict when people are going to break up, and Target is able to predict if a woman is pregnant before she knows just based on the type of lotion she bought.

Imagine being able to predict and prevent cancer before it starts. If we gather the world's talent and expertise in a committed, targeted effort, great progress is possible.

I can do Tarot cards and all that.

I was brought up with psychics and tarot cards. My mum was always told I was going to be in a boy band and be famous as a singer.

You can be taught so much, but the sense of anticipation cannot be taught.

I used to have an aunty who read tea leaves. She was incredibly accurate.

They pay little attention to what we say and prefer to read tea leaves.

The FBI Academy teaches new agents that the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.