Quotes About Prediction

Might as well ask the once-popular Magic 8-Ball something. It got "Outlook not so good" right. I don't know if anyone ever asked it about Internet Explorer. 

Hem biz seninle hiç dans etmedik, de?il mi? - Hay?r etmedik - Ben zaten dans etmekten fazla zevk almam, bazen dans etti?im kimse ho?uma gider ve bu yüzden o s?k?nt?ya katlan?r?m. - Bu i? için ho?una gidece?imi tahmin etmem. - Ben de tahmin etmem. Ama olsun, arkada?l?kta fedakarl?k laz?md?r.

O gelmez art?k!'' dedi. ''Nereden biliyorsun?'' dedim. ''Gidi?inden belliydi!'' dedi.

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.

Consider the past; such great changes of political supremacies. Thou mayest foresee also the things which will be. For they will certainly be of like form, and it is not possible that they should deviate from the order of the things which take place now: accordingly to have contemplated human life for forty years is the same as to have contemplated it for ten thousand years. For what more wilt thou see?

and to foresee things a long way off

People always forget about prophecies unless they come true.

She was not stunned, the way I was. In some strange way she was gleeful, as if this was what she had been expecting for some time and now she'd been proven right.

You know she said I was going to marry a gentleman with jet-black hair and a long black mustache, and I don't like black-haired gentlemen.

Television won't last because people will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.

The world is coming to an end in 1950.

The Second Law of Thermodynamics: If you think things are in a mess now, just wait!

The information superhighway is a dirt road that won't be paved over until 2025.

So many of the things I've predicted were technologies that were just sitting right in front of us.

We know the past but cannot control it. We control the future but cannot know it.

By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.

The time may have come to say goodbye to Muhammad Ali, because very honestly, I don't think he can beat George Foreman.

In reality, no one knows what the market will do; trying to predict it is a waste of time, and investing based upon that prediction is a speculative undertaking.

Sometime in the future - 25, 50, 75 years hence - what will the situation be like then? By that time the Chinese will have the capability of delivery too.

Every time you do something that is important, write down what you expect will happen.

It is quite clear to me that the Tory Party will get rid of Mrs Thatcher in about 3 years time.

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.

We are perhaps not far removed from the time when we shall be able to submit the bulk of chemical phenomena to calculation.

We will not have any more crashes in our time.