Quotes About Prediction

It's hard to speculate what tomorrow may bring.

We humans lack imagination, to the point of not even knowing what tomorrow's important things will look like.

Few of us can accurately gauge how we will feel tomorrow or next week. That's why when you go to the supermarket on an empty stomach, you'll buy too much, and if you shop after a big meal, you'll buy too little.

The most certain thing you can say about the environment tomorrow is that it probably is going to be just like today, for the most part.

Meteorologists are pretty faces reading scripts telling you whether it's going to rain tomorrow.

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

I have a knack - and still do - where I can look at a guy and tell you if he's going to draw you money or not. That's very difficult to do. I haven't met too many people who can do that.

I don't know anything about politics. I wouldn't put too much into my prediction on politics.

Our long-range predictions - especially those which anticipate extreme-weather events - rely on an assumption that the future will be similar to the past. Lose that, and we lose the tools that have allowed us to prepare for such eventualities.

Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species; we are much better with tools and narrative storytelling.

Even though they won't finish in the top four this season, they will still be of the contenders next season.

I don't expect to see them in the top six but I think of all the teams that have come up in previous seasons, I think Manchester City are the biggest club.

Climatologists are all agreed that we'd be lucky to see the end of this century without the world being a totally different place, and being 8 or 9 degrees hotter on average.

The best we can do is to predict the probability of seeing the electron in any particular location or with any particular velocity.

The real universe is nothing like that. It's more like an annoying child who likes to approach people and say, "I know what's going to happen to you next!" Then, when you ask what will happen, the child says, "I can't tell you." And after it happens, they say, "See? I knew that was going to happen!" That's the universe for you.

He said it would come down at exactly twenty-three minutes after midnight, and it did. A day is twenty-four hours. Twenty-three minutes after midnight is 24:23.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. It was the third of Arthur C. Clarke's three laws of prediction.

Die Prophezeiung muss grauenvoll gewesen sein", sagte Arina, um nach einer Weile hinzuzufügen. "Die Zeiten damals waren sehr schwer." "Leichte Zeiten gibt es nicht", stellte Fan klar.

We [ The Kansas]'re somewhat hard-pressed at this time to imagine any bands that'll be around 40 years from now (and that's our personal opinion).

There's a better chance of a brokered convention than any time in our lifetime.

We can't see ahead of time what actions are going to be the ones that move history in dramatic ways.

To know the future absolutely it to be trapped into that future absolutely. It collapses time. Present becomes future.

As for my prediction that this phone would be a bad idea for Apple to pursue, anything can still happen. Time is a cruel mistress.

We do not know the details in a day. How can we foretell the happenings in distant time.