Quotes About Prediction

The most highly regarded models predict that the climate of New England will become hostile to sugar maples within fifty years.

How do you know?" "Well, I don't, I'm making this up, but I bet I'm right.

No one can make it rain, but I'm very good at knowing when the rain will come.

Everyone said that one day I was going to have a big accident, an accident to end all accidents. One day you might look up and see a kid falling from the sky. That would be me.

Hwoinch!' said Hen Wen.

He's going to say it, I just know he is … "Let's see what happens.

Hooded, and veiled with their night-like tresses, The Fates shall bring what no prophet guesses. And

Young people seldom turn out as one predicts, so it is of little use to expect anything,' said Mrs. Meg with a sigh. 'If our children are good and useful men and women, we should be satisfied; yet it's very natural to wish them to be brilliant and successful.

Whatever his feelings might have been, Laurie found aa vent for them in a long low whistle and the fearful prediction as they parted at the gate, Mark my words, Jo, you'll go next.

Mark my words, Jo, you'll go next.

Neither he nor anyone else could have predicted that this overweight, rheumatic, vain, pompous, gluttonous inebriate would be so ardent in battle.

All along, he insisted, he knew it would fail and had gone along simply as a tactical maneuver.

I missed that one,' Henryson said. 'The war, I mean.' 'Don't worry,' Snipes said. 'Another one's always coming down the pike. That's something all your historians and philosophers agree on. A feller over in Germany looks to be ready to set a match to Europe soon enough, and quick as they snuff him out there'll be another to take his place.

Cliffords, were not the only people to realise that there were terrible times ahead.' 'What happened to your

In economics, things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then they happen faster than you thought they could.

When a snake misses its stroke, it never says anything or gives any sign of what it means to do next.

On occasions, very occasionally, things happen as you feel they will, as you feel in your bones they will.

Just to show you how far I was from predicting the accident or suspecting that it could occur-even though, except for Dolores Driscoll, who drove the bus, I was surely the person in town closest to the event, the only eyewitness, you might say-at the moment it occurred I was thinking of fucking Risa Walker.

an early harbinger of the winter to come. Stanley

Nunca me verás a mí mirar ni a derecha ni a izquierda por causa de un augurio.

In adaptive terms, belief has been extraordinarily useful. It is, after all, by believing various propositions about the world that we predict events and consider the likely consequences of our actions. Beliefs are principles of action: whatever they may be at the level of the brain, they are processes by which our understanding (and misunderstanding) of the world is represented and made available to guide our behavior.

Success depends on intuition, on seeing what afterwards proves true but cannot be established at the moment.

Computer Science: A study akin to numerology and astrology, but lacking the precision of the former and the success of the latter.

A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once.