Quotes About Predictions

When good fighters fight, they often make predictions. It's all part of the media hype beforehand.

If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing.

I think people are going to return to sanity when they see how ridiculous many of these charges are, and how the predictions are not borne out.

The thing that people associate with expertise, authoritativeness, kind of with a capital 'A,' don't correlate very well with who's actually good at making predictions.

It is our common experience as human beings that the results of social forces seem to admit only of 'probabilistic' predictions.

I don't think we should run government based on economists' predictions.

When you have a perfect free market, it's difficult to predict the future. But when you have a market that is disturbed by government manipulations and money-printing, it's impossible to make any predictions.

Metro police can't infuse hope into those for whom hope is foreign. The algorithm does not exist that can heal the traumatized. Data-driven predictions won't result in the delivery of mental health services.

Fundamental to real expertise is 1: whether the informational structure of the environment is sufficiently regular that it's possible to make good predictions and 2: does it allow high quality feedback and therefore error-correction.

Science fiction writers didn't predict the fade-out of NASA's manned space operations, and they weren't prepared with alternative routes to space when that decline became undeniable.

Science is about predictions based on predictable fact. Life is about surprises based on the unpredictable reality.

The thing about a theory in science is it allows you make predictions. Evolutionary theory allows us to predict what apples will taste good next harvest.

What's the use of having developed a science well enough to make predictions if, in the end, all we're willing to do is stand around and wait for them to come true?

In science, progress is possible. In fact, if one believes in Bayes' theorem, scientific progress is inevitable as predictions are made and as beliefs are tested and refined.

But reassurance can be the cruelest antidote to anxiety. Our rosy predictions both leave the anxious unprepared for the worst.

Nonsense," said the witcher. "And what's more, it doesn't rhyme. All decent predictions rhyme.

You took advantage of a madman's ravings to strengthen your own authority. To break up alliances, ruin marriage allegiances, stir up dynasties. In a word: to tangle the strings of crowned puppets even more. And here you are lecturing me about predictions, which any old storyteller at the marketplace would be ashamed of.

Nonsense," said the witcher. "And what's more, it doesn't rhyme. All decent predictions rhyme.

I think bubbles are things people see with 20/20 hindsight. If you look at any particular period where prices go up and then they go down, you will always find people who predicted that they would go down. Those are the people you pay attention to.

I am a confident person. I can make predictions or whatever, that is just my confidence level. If I got out there and do that, fine. If not, ain't no tears coming out of my eyes.

At times it was impossible for him to control the praise and predictions that issued from him like thanks, and he was aware of exaggerating; yet he felt a boxer needed someone who believed in him, and if it were true that confidence could win fights, then he could not be sure his overestimates were really that at all. Guiding

I have stressed this distinction because it is an important one. It defines the fundamental difference between probability and statistics: the former concerns predictions based on fixed probabilities; the latter concerns the inference of those probabilities based on observed data.

If current predictions of population growth prove accurate and patterns of human activity on the planet remain unchanged, science and technology may not be able to prevent either irreversible degradation of the environment or continued poverty for much of the world. —ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON AND U.S. NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, 1992

As Yogi Berra once said: "It's tough to make predictions. Especially about the future." The experts in 1880 couldn't imagine a technology, a solution, that