Quotes About Prediction

Yine de bunun sana olaca??n? tahmin edemiyorum," dedi Tasha, gülerek. "Sen her zaman a??rba?l?s?n. Elbette ki... kimse anlamas?n diye bebek dilini Rusça konu?aca??ndan eminim.

Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.

The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong - but that's the way to bet.

Anything involving the future is an over-optimistic lie.

Like many other touchstones of twenty-first-century pop culture, 'The Sopranos' was hatched in the late Nineties, predicting a future that never arrived. It was designed for a decade that would be just like the Nineties, except more so, in an America that enjoyed seeing itself as smarter and braver and freer than ever before.

A pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun - and neither can stop the march of events.

Power without foresight leads to disaster.

Consciously or unconsciously, you always get what you expect.

An estimate is not a number. An estimate is a distribution.

We programmers simply do not know how long things will take. This isn't because we are incompetent or lazy; it's because there is simply no way to know how complicated a task is going to be until that task is engaged and finished. But, as we'll see, all is not lost.

If the world doesn't come to an end in the next thirty or forty years,' he said, 'we may be facing disaster.

The easiest kind of prophecy," he said, "is the kind that predicts things that have already happened.

People feel superior to the person whose actions they can predict. If you show them who is in control by playing against their expectations, you both gain their respect and tighten your hold on their fleeting attention.

He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may say. WALTER BENJAMIN, 1892-1940

Quien pregunta a un adivino cuál será su futuro, sin querer ignora una intuición interior de las cosas por venir, que es mil veces más exacta que cualquier cosa que el adivino pueda decirle. WALTER BENJAMIN, 1892-1940

No days unalert." Nothing should catch you by surprise because you are constantly imagining problems before they arise. Instead of spending your time dreaming of your plan's happy ending, you must work on calculating every possible permutation and pitfall that might emerge in it. The further you see, the more steps ahead you plan, the more powerful you become.

You can always spot a fool, for he is the man who will tell you he knows who is going to win an election. But an election is a living thing -- you might almost say, the most vigorously alive thing there is -- with thousands upon thousands of brains and limbs and eyes and thoughts and desires, and it will wriggle and turn and run off in directions no one ever predicted, sometimes just for the joy of proving the wiseacres wrong.

And when did the catastrophe occur?' 'Three years later, in two thousand and twenty-five.' 'In what

I told you this would happen. I am Cassandra—doomed to see the future yet destined never to be believed.

YOU CAN ALWAYS SPOT A FOOL, for he is the man who will tell you he knows who is going to win an election

I've seen men die because they were sure that what should not happen,would not. -Robert Jordan(The eye of the world,Wheel of time)

And for some reason, men and women who told the tale often found a need to add almost identical words. The storm is coming, they said, staring southward in worry. The storm is coming.

I've seen men die because they were sure that what should not happen, would not.

But I thought you said we didn't have to worry, Perrin said, and Tam shook his head. I said should not, boy, not did not. I've seen men die because they were sure that what should not happen, would not.