Quotes About Forecast

KEY POINT: If you don't stabilize a sales forecast, you can't control your company. If you control a forecast, you control the world.

We are never prepared for what we expect

When you look what is happening in this country with the debt, the deficit, the CBO coming out and saying once again we're going to have a trillion dollar plus deficit in 2012, the fourth straight year, and unemployment may be going back up to 8.9 or maybe nine percent by the end of the year, these are serious situations that are going.

Why listen to me? I can only predict epidemics and plagues.

The weatherman is always as honest as he is vague.

Each test score had been lower than the last, reading like a strange weather forecast: ninety in September, mid-eighties in October, low seventies in November, sixties before Christmas.

If the first of July be rainy weather, It will rain, more or less, for four weeks together.

Ceraunoscopy, n. Divination by thunder and lightning.

A liberal is a man who is right most of the time, but he's right too soon.

Winter was coming.

We futurists have a magic button. We follow every statement about a failed forecast with 'yet.'

Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation?†

June 1. The opening day of the Atlantic hurricane season

And my friends, you ain't seen nothin' yet.

In 1981, I was a futurist - or at least I was a guy who put on a futurist hat occasionally - and I wrote about the 21st century.

It's more important to know whether there will be weather, than what the weather will be.

Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going. Of course, some people never go beyond Expectations

Linus: It was a short summer, Charlie Brown. Charlie Brown: And it looks like it's gonna be a looong winter.

Some people believe that Moore's Law will continue to be accurate until about 2015.

The brighter the sunlight, the worse it affects them," said Einstein. "So we got to pay more attention to the weather forecast," said DogNut. "Cloudy with a chance of zombies.

Past behavior is the best predictor of future behavior.

You can never plan the future by the past.

Long-range weather forecast: It's gonna get real hot, then it's gonna get real cold, then it's gonna get real hot again.

If there's a 50/50 chance that a forecast will go wrong, nine times out of ten it will.