Quotes About Prediction

We expect 2016 to be the warmest year ever, primarily because of climate change but around 25% because of El Niño"

that states have often passed laws against fortune-tellers and prophets of doom.

The way I see it, the nineteenth century was a British century. The twenthieth century is an American century. I predict that the twenty-first century will be a Chinese century. The pendulum of history will swing from the ying ashes brought by the Cultural Revolution to the yang pheonix arising from its wreckage. Aunt Baba, pg 226. Year 1979

There is no possibility I have made a mistake. Everything that happens as a result of my actions is one of calculation and certainty. Everything happening is exactly what I predicted.

The religions have passed the climacteric; they're now decadent. They can remain like that for a few centuries yet. What revolutions won't do, will be done by evolution. One may regret living at a period when it's impossible to form an idea of the shape the world of the future will assume. But there's one thing I can predict to eaters of meat, that the world of the future will be vegetarian!

If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them.

We can now diagnose diseases that haven't even manifested in the patient, and may not until the fifth decade of life - if at all.

People who know Paul Ryan say, 'He will be president one day.'

Knowing where a team will usually place a penalty can be the difference between winning or losing.

I can see when people's minds are wrong. You can see when a footballer's going to miss a penalty.

I think when I was younger, I knew I was either going to get a penalty or score a goal. It was a gamble. But it benefited me.

I'll be amazed in my lifetime if my business gets to being 5 per cent online.

You could claim that moving from pixelated perception, where the robot looks at sensor data, to understanding and predicting the environment is a Holy Grail of artificial intelligence.

I think I was about seven when people started telling my parents I would be an actor or a performer of some kind.

Perhaps at a later point important developments will be traced back to September 11. But for now we do not know which of the many scenarios will actually hold in the future.

When we started 'Perry Mason,' we thought it might go a year.

I'll never take any credit for Lady Gaga or Katy Perry's success. But I knew within a month that Gaga was going to be huge.

The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculus.

Saying that genetics could be dangerous is like saying fire is hot. Warning that soon everyone will be able to hack the genome is like predicting, back in early caveman days, that soon everyone will have fire.

En este mundo nuestro, ocho veces de cada diez las cosas no salen según se había previsto, pero, como reza otro antiguo proverbio, ¿quién sabe si es buena o mala fortuna que el anciano de Sai pierda su caballo?

Don't turn the truth into a lie using self-fulfilling prophecies. RJ Intindola

Sometimes I really hate being right.

It is difficult to predict the future of an economy in which it takes more brains to figure out the tax on our income than it does to earn it.

Change is also loss, and in that sense a parent can lose a child every day, until you realise that you'd better stop predicting what they're going to become and concentrate on what is right in front of you.