Quotes About Prediction

1.7% increase in terms of success rate a year, its nothing. By the time we get to the 24 century we might have effective treatments, Star Trek will be long gone by that time.

The world will very soon be divided, unless I am mistaken, into those who still go on explaining our success, and those somewhat more intelligent who are trying to explain our failure.

worried capitalist is like a comet: he always presages some disaster for the world.

A crestfallen capitalist is like a comet: he always warns of some great misfortune to come.

Un capitaliste chagrin est comme les comètes, il présage toujours quelque grand malheur au monde.

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

Nations, as well as men, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in their earliest years.

They were prepared for everything except what actually happened.

All that will ever be has already been written long before it happens. There is nothing we can do to stop it.

It was so much easier to see another person's future than it was to understand your own. Even when you kept your eyes wide open, the world would surprise you.

Sometimes you think you know what's going to happen next, and then the world surprises you

You can never tell about a person by guessing.

Snow in April means a hot summer to come.

I put the odds on a psychic deathmatch between Attila the Hun and Virginia Woolf at fifty-fifty.

Unless Chase Bank quits I prophesy blood violence

What prophecy actually is is not that you actually know that the bomb will fall in 1942. It's that you know and feel something that somebody knows and feels in a hundred years. And maybe articulate it in a hint—a concrete way that they can pick up on in a hundred years.

No matter what you do, someone always knew you would.

A 2001 study from the University of Rochester Cancer Center published in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management concluded that expecting nausea was the strongest predictor that patients would actually experience it.16 The researchers

Expectation, the second element, comes into play when we have reason to anticipate a different outcome.

If you told me that you didn't like being in that void because it's so disorienting and that you can't see what lies ahead because you can't predict your future, I'd say that's actually great, because the best way to predict the future is to create it—not from the known, but from the unknown. As

There's no such thing as writing about the future. The future hasn't happened yet.

The most important things in your life are almost always impossible to predict.

the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.

By 1948, "to err is Truman" became a popular expression, and a Newsweek poll of fifty political pundits found that every one of them predicted his defeat. His 1948 Republican opponent was the popular Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York, who had been the party's nominee against Roosevelt four years before.