Quotes About Prediction

I'm not psychic myself.

My wife has a good sense of humor, and instead of calling me psychic with my novels, she simply refers to me as being 'psycho.' That's because multiple things in my books have come true.

If I hit Khan, he's going down. If the punch is in the right place, he won't get up. I can knock him out with one right hand.

Never put your money against Cassius Clay, for you will never have a lucky day.

I'm asked all the time who the next big thing is in NXT and I always say I'm not going to say because it puts too much pressure on them.

Florida will be gone altogether, the whole damned place, in not too long.

I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.

It feels like my books come true. I write these things, and then they kind of end up happening. I wasn't divorced, for example, when I wrote a book about divorce.

No one can forecast the economy with certainty.

I do not forecast playing until 38 or 39.

And this is one way to do technology forecasting; get a sense of where technology is, and then anticipate the next upturn.

Using a forecasting company is like going to a fortune-teller. If you believe the company and the color does not sell, who do you blame? The forecasters? No, you blame yourself.

The unbearableness of the future is easier to face than that of the present if only because human foresight is much more destructive than anything that the future can bring about.

Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.

I'd probably be, like, a 2-to-1 favorite over Woodley if we fought.

When I fought Jorge Cota, that's a prelim of what's to be expected from me in the future.

Frankly, I thought we would have lost the House by now.

Frankly, I'll believe in horoscopes the day I can describe my personality to an astrologer and they tell me what date I was born.

When we were making The Fugitive, we all thought it was going to bomb.

Before the start of the 2000 season, 'C.S.I.' wasn't supposed to be the hit. We all thought it would be 'The Fugitive.'

I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.

Oh, I'm sure he won't be for long

Prophets have a way of dying by violence.

He realized suddenly that it was one thing to see the past occupying the present, but the true test of prescience was to see the past in the future. Things persisted in not being what they seemed.