Quotes About Prediction

Note that past results do not guarantee future performance. Instead, I am providing you the historical data here to discuss and illustrate the underlying principles.

Note that past performance does not guarantee future results. Instead, I am providing you the historical data here to discuss and illustrate the underlying principles.

None of these seasoned investment professionals could have predicted what would happen next.

I know they will murder him," she said, "and then when it is too late they will find out what they have done!

wherefore one who divines well in regard to the truth will also be able to divine well in regard to probabilities. It

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.

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

Can you sum up your ideas in less than—oh, a thousand bits?

One day, somebody had predicted, Earth would have a ring like Saturn's, composed entirely of lost bolts, fasteners, and even tools that had escaped from careless orbital construction workers.)

Hal's internal fault predictor could have made a mistake." "It's more

I Remember Babylon First published in Playboy, March 1960 Collected in Tales of Ten Worlds This is one of the rare cases where I violated Sam Goldwyn's excellent rule: 'If you gotta message, use Western Union.' This story was a message, five years before the first commercial communications satellite was launched, warning of their possible danger. Apart from some minor political earthquakes, everything in it has since come true.

I am having difficulty in maintaining contact with Earth. The trouble is in the AE-35 unit. My Fault Prediction Center reports that it may fail within seventy-two hours.

The newborn Athena, suddenly knowing far more about the future than the humans who had created her, had immediately been faced with a dilemma.

He foresaw that she would be very much more useful to him in the character of a free woman.

Sosil said a cat licking herself meant a guest was coming.

I recall thinking that this paper would be the least interesting paper that I will ever be on." Adleman could not have been more wrong. The system, dubbed RSA (Rivest, Shamir, Adleman) as opposed to ARS, went on to become the most influential cipher in modern cryptography.

And if you find I've lied, from this day on call the prophet blind.

Oft we know not till we see. Weak is human prophecy. Judge not, till the hour have taught thee What the destinies have brought thee.

What men have seen they know;             but what shall come hereafter             no man before the event can see, 1420    nor what end waits for him.

no skill in the world, nothing human can penetrate the future.

My life is passed in making bad jokes and seeing them turn into true prophecies.

Whatever past you had, when you become a mother, it [life] is a whole different thing. You can't even predict it.

I was told when I went for a life-insurance exam when I was 18 that I was not likely to live past 50, so I refused to pay the premium.

I have a form of ESP that allows me to consistently pick losing lottery numbers, and generally make poor life choices.