Quotes About Prediction

I didn't expect to win, since the odds were slightly against me, but as I expected to build a device to successfully predict roulette and had never gambled before, it was time to get casino experience. I knew virtually nothing about casinos, their history, or how they operated. I was like a person who had glanced at recipes but never been in a kitchen.

The $32 loss was well within the range of possible outcomes predicted by my theory, so it didn't lead me to doubt my results.

One of the characteristic problems of our time is how to close this gap between capabilities and foresight.

not that any futurist has ever lost business because of a wrong prediction.

We have one real candidate for changing the rules; this is string theory. In string theory the one-dimensional trajectory of a particle in spacetime is replaced by a two-dimensional orbit of a string. Such strings can be of any size, but under ordinary circumstances they are quite tiny, ... a value determined by comparing the predictions of the theory for Newton's constant and the fine structure constant to experimental values.

It's the guessing that develops a man's brain power. Just consider what you have to do to guess right.

The principles of successful stock speculation are based on the supposition that people will continue in the future to make the mistakes that they have made in the past.

You cannot decide to try any matter that even you are unsure about its clarity, the visible outlook may excite one to take the step to move forward that success is predictable.

I remember a little later wondering why things always turn out to be diametrically opposed to what you expect them to be. It's no good even trying to predict what this opposite will be because it always fools you and turns out to be the opposite of that , if you see what I mean. If you think this is geometrically impossible all I can say is that you don't know my life

To regard ones immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.

I expect the worst both from reviewers and sales and then, with any luck, I may be proved wrong.

You only come to know these things in hindsight Ã¢â'¬â€œ when you look back and see the precarious chain of events, happenstance, and good fortune that led to wherever you are now. Before you reach that point, you have no way of predicting which idea will make a difference and which will die on the vine.

You only come to know these things in hindsight Ã¢â'¬â€œ when you look back and see the precarious chain of events, happenstance, and good fortune that led to wherever you are now. Before you reach that point, you have no way of predicting which idea will make a difference and which will die on the vine. That's why you record them all. No matter how random, how small, how half-baked, how unfinished it may be; if you have a thought, record it right away.

An intriguing question is if there is any difference between a palmist and an economist given the fact of the outcome often seen of their forecast and prediction.

There is not much difference between an economist and a palmist because of the similarity of the success ratio of the predictions of both.

This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.

There are lots of people shaping decisions, and so if we want to predict correctly, we have to pay attention to everybody who is trying to shape the outcome, not just the people at the pinnacle of the decision-making pyramid.

Before the discovery of quantum mechanics, the framework of physics was this: If you tell me how things are now, I can then use the laws of physics to calculate, and hence predict, how things will be later.

Entire populations of market strategists, fund managers, and economists are employed to try and intuit for clients which securities to bet on for the best possible return each year - or quarter.

I think Burrow is gonna be a great NFL quarterback.

I don't think of myself predicting things. I'm expressing possibilities. Things that could happen. To a large extent it's a question of how badly people want them to.

I try not to get involved in the business of prediction. It's a quick way to look like an idiot.

When people come to a race, part of it is the anticipation: 'What is he going to do?'

I think, in BMX, it's a lot like horse racing. I wouldn't really bet on it.