Quotes About Forecasting

Nobody knows the future with certainty. We can, however, identify ongoing patterns of change.

The goal of forecasting is not to predict the future but to tell you what you need to know to take meaningful action in the present

Reasonable, smart people disagree about what will happen in the future—in part because nobody can see the future.

Those who need leaders are not qualified to choose them. In a sense, asking people to make political decisions is like asking them to forecast the weather. They're not in a position to do so, and it is silly to expect them to. Democracy entails people who run their businesses well being forced to run their businesses poorly by people who can't run businesses at all.

The Federal Reserve is not currently forecasting a recession. Ben Bernanke January 10, 2008

Mastering time is similar to an individual who's trying to predict the direction in which the wind will blow.

Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.

Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.

The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it.

El propio Kondratiev se mostró siempre exquisitamente cauto en cuanto a las implicaciones de su teoría. Jamás afirmó que sirviera para predecir acontecimientos, aunque, desde luego, predijo la Gran Depresión de la década de 1930 diez años antes de que esta se produjera.

I can't predict the future.

Forecasting is not a respectable human activity and not worthwhile beyond the shortest of periods.