Quotes About Prediction

Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace the day's disasters in his morning face.

Radio has no future." "X-rays are clearly a hoax". "The aeroplane is scientifically impossible.

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

Man will never reach the Moon, regardless of all future scientific advances.

For all we know, the handwriting might have been on the wall all along. The question is: was the ink invisible?

The best investors don't get persuaded by stock blips or charts. It's about staying ahead of the curve—anticipating changes in sentiment. You've got to anticipate what newspaper headlines will say next.

And for Kevin Costner,, he'll have a big career.

Sean's (Penn) is going to be the new Dustin Hoffman. He'll be around a long time.

Matt says he thinks the Patriots are going to win the Super Bowl this year. He

thought for sure someone would screech or gasp or fall off the bed.

Only time will tell.

Hal Lindsey

One Crow for sorrow, Two Crows for mirth, Three Crows for a wedding, Four Crows for a birth, Five Crows for silver, Six Crows for gold, Seven for a secret, never to be told.

I was doing it again, jumping around. But it was so hard to start at the beginning when you knew how it would end.

If you'd asked me, it was only a matter of time before something like this happened. But of course, nobody had asked me.

Doc didn't have a television but he could predict that sort of thing. He just didn't need one. He could always tell what was on TV when he heard more than two people in a row say the same strange phrase in the same way. He knew that they had just seen it on television. A few weeks later everyone would have those words written on their chests.

At the time of this writing I am trying to influence another national topic: climate science. My framing involves separating the science from the prediction models, and the prediction models from the economic models, and evaluating each of them separately. After all, economics is not science. Economics is more like astrology, at least when you're predicting ten years out.

Never assume you understand the odds of things. I

On August 13, 2015, I predicted in my blog that Donald Trump had a 98 percent chance of winning the presidency based on his persuasion skills. A week earlier, the most respected political forecaster in the United States—Nate Silver—had put Trump's odds of winning the Republican nomination at 2 percent in his FiveThirtyEight.com blog.

Never assume you understand the odds of things.

Software is nothing like construction. Software is innovation. Innovation is difficult—if not impossible—to predict.

There was one big rule in life - the things you worried about never happened, and the things that happened were never the ones you expected. Not that this bit of advice helped Johnny much. It simply meant that he spent more time guessing at what the unexpected disasters in his life would be.

This man, Trump. There is no way he could be president. Okay, just take my word for it. It was never going to happen.

To ascribe feeling is usually to make a prediction about subsequent behaviour.