Quotes About Prediction

I believed in realism, as summarized by John McCarthy's comment to the effect that if we worked really hard, we'd have an intelligent system in from four to four hundred years.

We're living in a world where Google beats Gallup.

Google never knew how successful key words would be. Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.

You mustn't take what I say as gospel because no one can second-guess the future.

I disagreed with my teachers on pretty much everything, including what grades I was going to get at A-level. I was sure I'd pass, they were convinced I'd fail.

I think there will be no government bankruptcy in Greece.

You can't guarantee everything's going to be televised.

The best of seers is he who guesses well.

I remember reading 'The Guest' and thinking, 'This is going to be something!'

Franco will bring the army from Castille. The ambassador will complain, causing a schism. Rivera's men will be part of the force. The great man will be denied entry to the gulf.

Well, with all shows that become successful, Ive always had a gut feeling. All of the shows that Ive been involved in that have become successful Ive had this gut feeling from reading the scripts.

We encounter regression to the mean almost every day of our lives. We should try to anticipate it, recognize it, and not be fooled by it.

I drive away those who pay to see me by foretelling their futures, and I will foretell yours. You are young now, and strong. But before the world has wound itself ten times more about the sun you shall be less strong, and you shall never regain the strength that is yours now. If you breed sons, you will engender enemies against yourself. If-- Enough! I said. What you are telling me is only the fortune of all men.

If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.

Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.

A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous prophecy which life and death easily set at nought.

As a young boy I won a few dollars in 1972 when Riva Ridge won the Kentucky Derby. I had overheard someone say he was going to win, and I guess that made an impression on me.

Foreknowledge is a wonderful thing.

One of the wonderful things about 'Power' and why fans often say it makes their heart race is it's set up like a horror film because the audience is, like, four or five steps ahead of the characters.

Which prophecy of Christ we see wonderfully to be verified, insomuch that the whole course of the Church to this day may seem nothing else but a verifying of the said prophecy.

A great war shall burst forth from fishes of steel. Machines of flying fire, lobsters, grasshoppers, mosquitoes. The mass attacks shall be repulsed in the woods, when no child in Germany shall obey any longer.

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.

Anti-submarine warfare is the military version of chess. You must work out what the enemy is going to do before they even think of it.

Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.