Quotes About Prediction

Information is a measure of uncertainty reduced.

Any board-room sitter with a taste for Wall Street lore has heard of the retort that J. P. Morgan the Elder is supposed to have made to a naïve acquaintance who had ventured to ask the great man what the market was going to do. "It will fluctuate," replied Morgan dryly.

Toffler's Law, I guess: the future arrives too soon and in the wrong order.

It is dangerous ... to apply to the future inductive arguments based on past experience.

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.

What they write today you'll eat your chips from tomorrow. Remember that through your tears.

A great book that claimed that the end of the world, based on a close examination of the Bible, would occur in 1783, had largely retreated into madness, refusing to believe that the present date was any later than 1782, for to do so would be to admit that its contents were wrong and that its existence therefore had no purpose beyond that of a mere curiosity.

He'll never understand or see, they'll never give him what they gave us, he'll step in the wrong places and look when he should look away, never see doors or know turnings; wait and see, you just wait and see";

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.

All the skills which I have acquired during my sociological life allow me to diagnose and explain what is going on, but not to predict what will happen.

My main object in life is to see what will happen next.

Sometimes I write stuff that strangely predicts what's going to happen in my life.

You can look out of your life like a train & see what you're heading for, but you can't stop the train.

There's not that many surprises that you get in life.

There are lots of futurists that spend their whole life trying to figure out who we're going to be in 40, 50, 60, 100 years. That's the great thing about science fiction.

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

Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.

Imagine how dull life would be if variables assessed for admission to a graduate program really did predict who would succeed and who would fall. Life would be intolerable - no hope, no challenge

When I was in my teens, I made an appraisal of how comfortable my life could turn out when I became the age I am now. Because of a mechanical failure, the prediction was inexact.

What I've learned during my life is that the near future is 90% identical to the present - if you buy a new car today, it'll probably still be on the road in 2022.

Human science is an uncertain guess.

The single most important factor in predicting health, longevity, occupational success, income, leadership ability, and general happiness comes down to one four-letter word. "It's love," Vaillant famously stated. "Full stop.

Lesson: Do not assume that what investors call momentum, a long streak of either rising or falling prices, will continue unless you can make a sound case that it will.

If you do this, what do you want to happen? and If you do this, what do you think will happen?