Quotes About Prediction

as Shakespeare says: "What's to come is still unsure." Even the shrewdest men are apt to be wildly astray if they prophecy so much as 10 years ahead. Some people will consider this doctrine immoral, but after all it is the Gospel which says "take no thought for the morrow.

In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right.

The way I usually put it is that as an SF writer, I'm never required to be right.

There's been a lot of really great intensive research into earthquakes, but we can't predict an earthquake down to the day. We can't predict where a hurricane is going to be a month in advance.

When I first started recording, I was told by all of the experts in the business that the kind of music that I was doing was never going to sell. That disco was the coming thing and it was going to take over and what I was interested in was a minor sideline.

Our ancient forebears who learned to synchronize the movements of dance were those with the capacity to predict what others around them were going to do and signal to others what they wanted to do next. These forms of communication may well have helped lead to the formation of larger human communities.

I've gone from the edgy girl to the girl you call for H&M and L'Oreal, which is something neither I nor the myriad agencies that rejected me when I tried to get signed could have predicted.

There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share.

I believe in numbers and signs.

In 2004, I don't think any Silver Jews fan was probably expecting another record.

All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong.

Thus, what enables the wise sovereign and the good general to strike and conquer, and achieve things beyond the reach of ordinary men, is foreknowledge.

prohibit omens altogether. You can best predict your future by controlling it yourself, not by trusting luck or fate to control it.

Thus,  what enables the wise sovereign and the good general to strike and conquer, and achieve things beyond the reach of ordinary men, is FOREKNOWLEDGE.

Las armas son instrumentos de mal augurio

Hay que prohibir los augurios, y eliminar las supersticiones. Hasta que la misma muerte llegue, no hay calamidad que deba ser temida.

For that tiny instant, I was every 16-year-old in history, not knowing what the skies foretold about my future.

Open for sun, closed for rain, that's the poor man's weathervane.

And about the staggering prediction made recently by the World Health Organization that, barring improbably rapid progress in the development of a vaccine, there will be ten to twenty times more AIDS cases in the next five years than there were in the last five, it is assumed that most of these millions will be Africans.

Todo era cuestiòn de ver el futuro, de saber verlo con claridad y deshacernos por un instante de nuestra propensiòn al engaño, al engaño de los otros y de nosotros mismos, a las mil mentiras que nos decimos sobre lo que puede pasarnos. Es necesario mentirnos, claro, porque nadie puede soportar demasiada clarividencia.

Es muy fácil predecir el pasado, tal y como saben todos los economistas, columnistas y sus cuñados, que sólo tienen que añadir un «estaba claro» al titular de ayer.

You are lost the instant you know what the result will be.

Te cansarás primero que yo. Llegaré a donde quieres llegar antes que tú estés allí -dijo el que iba detrás de él-. Me sé de memoria tus intenciones, quién eres y de dónde eres y adónde vas. Llegaré antes que tú llegues.

It was a fantastic learning experience and OK, I got slammed because I wasn't Audrey Hepburn but you could have predicted that, really, if you'd opened your eyes wide enough.