Quotes About Prognostication

Prediction is difficult, especially the future.

I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you're never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It's in the spirit of it.

Prophecy is only sometimes helpful.

Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.

Political and economic experts, for example, actually do worse than dart-throwing monkeys when it comes to making long-term predictions.

If you have to forecast, forecast often.

Figure-flingers and star-gazers pretend to foretell the fortunes of kingdoms, and have no foresight in what concerns themselves.

Formative commendation to the author as an altar boy: "You're the only one we've got to anticipates what's coming.

The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.

You mustn't take what I say as gospel because no one can second-guess the future.

no skill in the world, nothing human can penetrate the future.

What writers, artists, scientists and philosophers say today is indicative of future rather than current developments

I'd be doing Oscar predictions months ahead of time, and not only for the Oscars, for the Grammys. This is just what excited me as a kid.

Economists are criticized for not being able to predict the future,

Futurology always ends up telling you more about your own time than about the future.

Prediction," as Niels Bohr liked to say, "is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.

Tetlock's words, even when their predictions prove.

But as we've seen lately, such predictions are generally worthless.

The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine.

We need to stop, and admit it: we have a prediction problem. We love to predict things—and we aren't very good at it.

Economists, market advisers, political oracles, and clairvoyants all know this basic rule by heart: if you can't forecast right, forecast often.

All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong.

Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.

Accurate prediction of the future, of its technologies and traumas, has always seemed to me to be the least interesting thing about science fiction. The Killer Hook.