Quotes About Prediction

My business is to prevent the future.

George Orwell's science-fiction classic 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' wasn't a failure because the future it predicted failed to come to pass. Rather, it was a resounding success because it helped us prevent that future.

Predicting oil prices is anyone's guess.

People are always saying that prices are too high. When they turn out to be right, we anoint them. When they turn out to be wrong, we ignore them. They are typically right and wrong about half the time.

Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cortex, and the foundation of intelligence.

The probability I knock out Chael Sonnen is very big. Man, everybody knows his game. He is never going to take me down and I'm going to break his nose with my knee.

Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.

Health care has a lot of interesting machine-learning problems - outpatient outcomes, or when you have x-ray images and you want to predict things.

We found that process praise predicted the child's mindset and desire for challenge five years later.

Second point is no one here could predict or know that Israel was involved or started producing the hydrogen bomb - the most advanced and powerful atomic bomb that can kill millions of people.

'Data scientist,' as a profession, is largely a fad.

I see the game differently than some guys. I'm always reading the next move.

We are all wrong so often that it amazes me that we can have any conviction at all over the direction of things to come. But we must.

W2K will be a bigger disaster than Y2K.

I never want to get caught with not expecting something.

I believe there is true expertise in some endeavors, and not in others. There is obviously no such thing as expertise in predicting the results of coin tosses, but there is expertise in predicting the behavior of lasers.

Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.

Beyond this day, no thinking person could fail to see what would happen.

People tease me about knowing somehow that Obama would put Clinton into the cabinet, and everybody would talk about a team of rivals.

There was the scientific and technical progress which couldn't be predicted by the state.

If you just technically adhere to the law, sometimes that's enough, sometimes it's not; it's really hard to predict. There is definitely a possibility that the Chinese authorities won't find it sufficient.

Technological prescience in science fiction usually requires an author with luck. Societal prescience requires a poet.

Our intuition about the future is linear. But the reality of information technology is exponential, and that makes a profound difference. If I take 30 steps linearly, I get to 30. If I take 30 steps exponentially, I get to a billion.

When I was a teenager, a psychic told me, 'Your biggest challenge will be life-work balance.' That's certainly turned out to be true!