Quotes About Prediction

Humans usually try to guess the pattern, and in the process we allow ourselves to be outperformed by a rat.

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There's not much need for prophets who are in synch with their society.

The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. It was man's ability to invent which has made human society what it is.

I am proud that my humble attempts to predict Tuesday's prices on Monday are an indispensable component of our society. By buying low and selling high, I create harmony and freedom.

The Bible tells us, for instance, that there is going to be a cashless society. The Bible tells us that there is going to be global instability and excessive violence in the End Times.

Spiritual progress is when on becomes free not only of the knowledge which is inevitably from the past, but also from the need to know... and a desire to predict and control.

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

Tell me your heroes and I'll tell you how your life will end up

A sports expert is the guy who writes the best alibis for being wrong

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.

When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails. One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible.

Planung ersetzt Zufall durch Irrtum.

No se corre mucho riesgo apostando a que, dentro de veinte años, todos los países excesivamente poblados y poco desarrollados del mundo estarán bajo una u otra forma de gobierno totalitario, probablemente del Partido Comunista. ¿Cómo

In politics, the near future is likely to be closer to George Orwell's 1984 than to Brave New World.

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong; the next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

En los ojos de la gente puede verse lo que verán, no lo que han visto.

Il proiettile corre e non sa se ammazzerà qualcuno o finirà nel nulla, ma intanto corre e nella sua corsa è già scritto se finirà a spappolare il cuore di un uomo o a scheggiare un muro qualunque. Lo vede il destino? Tutto è già scritto eppure niente si può leggere.

Negli occhi della gente si vede quello che vedranno, non quello che hanno visto. Così, diceva: quello che vedranno.

Very few people imagine their own future accurately. And then they're often pleasantly surprised.

So plans were useful only in revealing what people wished for. If you wanted to know what they would actually do, then the only way of finding out was by watching them and seeing what they did. Then you would know what they might do in the future—because most people did what they had always done. That

the fear of what might happen in the future is almost always worse than the future that eventually arrives.

Melancholy in a capitalist, like the appearance of a comet, presages some misfortune to the world.

Dynamic systems studies usually are not designed to predict what will happen. Rather, they're designed to explore what would happen, if a number of driving factors unfold in a range of different ways.