Quotes About Prediction

If a prediction comes true it has succeeded. If a prophecy comes true it has failed.

A prophet does not foretell. He warns. A prophet does not speak to predict future catastrophe but rather to avert it. If a prediction comes true it has succeeded. If a prophecy comes true it has failed.

Fifty years isn't too bad. With luck you might see it happen when you're a sweet, old granny, dandling big fat babies on your knee. Actually"—he held up a hand, interrupting Kitty's cry of protest—"no, that's wrong. My projection is incorrect." "Good." "You'll never be a sweet old granny. Let's say, 'sad, lonely old biddy' instead.

History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen.

History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen.

un vaticinio tiene más autoridad que un comentario.

The only result of a horse race which historians can tell us with absolute confidence is one that has already been run.

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

We are the sort of creature who not only needs to put up firewood and food for the winter but who must also predict the distant future, make decisions about who or what created the universe and what sort of principles and path we should follow, deal with our fellow difficult and dangerous creatures, and in other ways make sense of things that would overtax any creature.

Customers don't know what they want. There's plenty of good psychology research that shows that people are not able to accurately predict how they would behave in the future. So asking them, 'Would you buy my product if it had these three features?' or 'How would you react if we changed our product this way?' is a waste of time. They don't know.

One day we had a conversation where we figured we could just try and predict the stock market... and then we decided it was illegal. So we stopped doing that.

Similarly, the HealthMap algorithm, which scours tens of thousands of social networks and news media, was capable of predicting the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa nine days before the World Health Organization.21b

Goosekit shook his head stubbornly. There were pictures crowding into his head, as clearly as if they were right in front of him. "There will be a badger," he insisted, "and Stormpaw will leave me to fight it on my own.

When Jayfeather told me it was going to rain today, he didn't warn me it was going to rain cats!

One might as well attempt to calculate mathematically the contingent forms of the tinkling bits of glass in a kaleidoscope as to look through the tube of the future and foretell its pattern.

I read today's news last month but this time it's worse.

It was as though it had already happened; predicting it felt like recalling a traumatic event.

Economists are criticized for not being able to predict the future, but, because the data are incomplete and subject to revision, we cannot even be sure what happened in the recent past. Noisy data make effective policymaking all the more difficult.

Sometimes market fears can be self-fulfilling, and a strong demonstration can avoid the worst outcomes.

setting aside the most volatile prices leads to better predictions of overall inflation.

Economists are criticized for not being able to predict the future,

But the end of tightening seemed in sight.

the course of the economy is extremely hard to forecast.

In that sense, a Lehman-type episode was probably inevitable.