Quotes About Prediction

Miss Rice talks very tough. We have gotten used to this nonsense. Miss Rice is a bit emotional about this, and we predicted that she would have a more emotional approach to this.

I think people expect me to be around at the end of a tournament.

It's a lot easier to see, at least in some cases, what the long-term limits of the possible will be, because they depend on natural law. But it's much harder to see just what path we will follow in heading toward those limits.

The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine.

At 16 I was very interested in palmistry. The fate line on my right palm broke into two parts that ran for a quarter of an inch on parallel tracks. I used to look at it and wonder, 'What will happen?'

I had no idea 'Big Green Tractor' was going to be as big a hit as it was. You just can't predict those things.

We call them impact songs, and people buy impact songs. But you just never know what those songs are going to be. One of those songs that really went through the roof for us was 'Big Green Tractor,' which I thought was kind of a fun little ditty song that I never in a million years thought would be as big as it was. But it was.

I hate to predict my future. I never really thought I would be a head coach at 34 years old. I never thought I would be traded to Tampa. I never even really thought I would be fired, even though I probably deserved it. I try not to predict things.

A tree doesn't make a thunderstorm, but any fool knows where lightning's going to strike.

You can trust a crystal ball about as far as you can throw it.

The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.

It's too late to leave the future to the futurists.

I have earned the title of expert, it is only on what was. There is no expert on what will be. And yet, without knowing the future, I remain a man full of hope.

In complex systems, after all, it is very hard to foresee or predict the consequences of presumed causes. So it is not the consequences that we should be afraid of (we might not even foresee them or believe them if we could). Rather, we should be weary of renaming things that negotiate their perceived risk down from what it was before.

Historians are bad prophets but good at prophesying the future when they already know what happened.

Everything you are afraid of will never happen. It's the events you cannot conceive of that happen.

he would ask me a thousand little questions, just, he said, to sound out the future a little.

We need to stop, and admit it: we have a prediction problem. We love to predict things—and we aren't very good at it.

Only one could have foreseen this, and I don't believe in him anymore.

Only one could have foreseen this, and I don't believe in him anymore.

The trick is to discern a market – before there is any proof that one exists.

Why do we go on listening to economic prophets when they plainly know no more about the future than you or I?

Economists, market advisers, political oracles, and clairvoyants all know this basic rule by heart: if you can't forecast right, forecast often.

Nostradamus wasn't often right, but he sure was often.