Quotes About Prediction

Let me state what the official IPCC prediction is: Sea levels could go up as much as three-quarters of a meter in this century, but there is a reasonable probability it could be much higher than that.

I consciously memorized the speed at which every pitcher in the league threw his fastball, curve, and slider. Then, I'd pick up the speed of the ball in the first 30 feet of its flight and knew how it would move once it has crossed the plate.

I'm not throwing a no-hitter Opening Day. It's just not going to happen.

A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy.'

I am not a pundit or a psephologist and thus not in the business of calling elections.

We predicted the concept of a telephone that isn't tied to a wall or a desk. We anticipated that everyone would have a cell phone. We joked that when you're born you would be assigned a cell phone and if you didn't answer you had died.

I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her grandma could give someone the evil eye, and I'd better not cross her because she had some of that blood in her. Mother always believed that she could predict the future, and she had dreams that came true.

Indeed, he was a contradiction. Ray Bradbury was a nostalgic visionary: He predicted the past and remembered the future.

An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.

When asked in 1994, for instance, which nation would have the greatest influence in Asia in the twenty-first century, 44 percent of the Japanese public said China, 30 percent said the United States, and only 16 percent said Japan.42 Japan, as one high Japanese official predicted in 1995, will have the "discipline" to adapt to the rise of China. He then asked whether the United States would. His initial proposition is plausible; the answer to his subsequent question is uncertain.

Sok szó esik az emberek között arról, hogy némely fanatikusok szerint elközelgett a világ vége, és a jöv? kedden lesz a napja. Bármikor lesz is, készítsen fel arra valamennyiünket a jó Isten.

next half dozen papers went from July 14, 2022, to July 7, 1837 (Headline: ONLY ONE HUNDRED YEARS TILL THE DEATH OF HARLOW!)

Ancestral voices prophesying war!

I can't tell you 100 percent what makes a relationship work. But I can see something good coming and I can see something bad coming.

If the next car passed is blue, Violet will be okay, she thought. If it's red, A will do something horrible to her. She heard a growl of an engine and shut her eyes, afraid to see what the future might hold. She'd never cared so much about anything in her life. Just as the car was passing, she opened her eyes and saw a Mercedes hood ornament. She let out a long sigh, tears coming to her eyes once more. The car was blue.

If you choose the right people for the group, it goes a little bit differently. At the same time, you can't always predict what's going to happen. Success might change people.

My main expertise is in the past, but if I have to extrapolate into the future, I would say: no good news any time soon and an obvious exit strategy is not apparent to me.

When I finally invent a time machine you will already know about it because I'll have told you a long time ago.

Ivan Lendl's never going to be a great player on grass. The only time he comes to the net is to shake your hand.

The calendar of the Theocracy of Muntab counts down, not up. No-one knows why, but it might not be a good idea to hang around and find out.

I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time.

It is all a matter of time scale. An event that would be unthinkable in a hundred years may be inevitable in a hundred million.

Maybe next time, but probably not.

We are living in a time of trouble and bewilderment, in a time when none of us can foresee or foretell the future.