Quotes About Prediction

It"s not your fault you had no siblings," he told her. "You have no experience in intrafamilial squabbles. Trust me, it all works out in the end. I predict we shall manage to get all four to adulthood with at least fifteen of their major limbs intact.

History is full of times when the inevitable front-runner is inevitable right up until he or she is no longer inevitable.

If Ding keeps performing the way he has been doing then it is inevitable the World Championship will go to his country.

You don't want to influence the same system you are trying to forecast.

Our initial assessment is that they will all die.

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.

No, I didn't expect Mancini to become a manager, because of the type of player he was - he was an intelligent player, of course, but I didn't think he had the desire to become a manager. But I guess if you speak to some of my team-mates they'd probably say they didn't expect me to either. I certainly didn't expect it.

The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.

Anton Chekhov said that, when the audience sees a loaded pistol on the wall in act 1, it must go off by act 3.

When discussing the rise and fall of empires, it is as well to mark their rate of growth, avoiding the temptation to telescope time and discover too early signs of greatness in a state which we know will one day be great, or to predict too early the collapse of an empire which we know will one day cease to be. The life-span of empires cannot be plotted by events, only by careful diagnosis and auscultation--and as in medicine there is always room for error.

Had she been able to see into the future, she might have pointed out that she was previewing her successors' plans for a possible no-deal Brexit.

The Bible tells us that the state of the world will grow darker as we near the end of the age.

Man is precisely what the Bible says he is. Human nature is behaving exactly as the Bible said it would. The course of human events is flowing just as Christ predicted.

The Bible is the only Book in the world that predicts the future. The Bible is more modern than tomorrow morning's newspaper.

What always happens, in my experience, is that people always think American politics is very different, but usually it is a predictor of what happens in the politics elsewhere.

We, of course, have the advantage of hindsight. Who can say which of today's widely repeated seeming truisms about the big bang, string theory, or the universe's origins will seem ludicrous a century hence?

By the year 2000 the United States as you know it will cease to exist!

Nobody believed the 'Food Network' could last. Even I was short sighted and thought to myself, 24 hours of food on TV? They'll run out of things to talk about in four days! But that wasn't true. 'Food Network' continues to get better and evolve.

Give me the character and I will forecast the event.

We would rather be sure of a correctly predicted negative outcome than face the realistic uncertainty of an unpredictable future even if it includes the possibility of great joy and success.

Climate is what we expect. Weather is what we get." Robert A. Heinlein

But then he offered this: 'The things that people are going to feel are still to come. The kind of impact this is going to have on our cities -ninety-five or ninety-eight percent of it is still yet to happen. What if I said there's still going to be no traffic in any major city in the U.S. in five years?

Just like Creation author Steve Grand had predicted, the creatures were evolving in ways that Bezos could not have imagined. It was the combination of EC2 and S3—storage and compute, two primitives linked together—that transformed both AWS and the technology world.

É mais fácil inventar o futuro do que prevê-lo." — Alan Kay