Quotes About Prediction

You have to take Bible prophecy literally, just like everything else in the Bible.

Anytime you're sitting there writing a book about yourself, it's a pretty self-fulfilling prophecy, I guess.

What are prophecies? Don't we hear them every day of the week? And if one comes true there may be seven blind and come to nothing.

Alan Moore is a prophetic writer.

We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.

Historians are prophets of the past, not of the future.

And for thee, who didst me all that evil, I prophesy an evil doom.

I read somewhere that the sun's getting hotter every year,' said Tom genially. 'It seems that pretty soon the earth's going to fall into the sun—or wait a minute—it's just the opposite—the sun's getting colder every year.

E. M. Forster's science fiction story "The Machine Stops." Written in 1909, it feels eerily prescient in 2020.

I am not cynical. I am just old. I know what is going to happen next.

You know how some fighters retire but you have a feeling they will be back at some point? I don't get that feeling from Chad Mendes.

I am convinced that 100 years from now, people will talk about Elliott Carter as one of the most important figures in the second half of 20th-century music.

Israel Adesanya will not be Eugene Bareman's final UFC champion.

Let's face it. Nobody predicted Trump. He's a fairytale nightmare that none of us could possibly have imagined. Shame on those 63 million who - especially those Obama voters who crossed over and voted, shame on them for putting this idiot in the White House.

Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.

I always said whoever brings Mexican food to New York would make a million dollars. Then Chipotle happened, which is fine.

Long-lived persons have one or two lines which extend through the whole hand; short-lived persons have two lines not extending through the whole hand.

When the venerable pontiff's hour has come, a Roman of good age shall be elected, of whom it will be said that he dishonored his throne though he held it long, with virtuous acts.

Marketers use big data profiling to predict who is about to get pregnant, who is likely to buy a new car, and who is about to change sexual orientations. That's how they know what ads to send to whom. The NSA, meanwhile, wants to know who is likely to commit an act of terrorism - and for this, they need us.

The things that have been most popular with people have always been a total surprise, and so I've never felt like I could really truthfully predict public taste, so why bother?

I don't plan my life or analyse things. Nothing can be predicted about the future, no one can put a finger on what's going to be the next big thing. Why bother?

My guess is that nuclear weapons will be used sometime in the next hundred years, but that their use is much more likely to be small and limited than widespread and unconstrained.

Science fiction's power, if it has any, is that it gives us reasonable extrapolations, not wild and woolly stuff.

I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet.