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Quotes About Prognostication

What's the opposite of déjà vu, when you see something that hasn't happened yet?" "I don't know—avant verrais?
~ Jasper Fforde
He was no longer, at least in his mind, the most wanted man in America. He was an analyst, a seer, a prognosticator going over his reams of data, moving their pieces, twisting them, testing them, discounting some, fleshing out others, slowly transforming disjointed intelligence into something that made sense.
~ David Baldacci
We write that bad ending before we even get there." "Isn't that what makes us human? The ability to look at the present and predict what's likely to happen?" "But we're really not all that good at it, are we?
~ Cinda Williams Chima
This a bit like forecasting the weather a year ahead. Actually, it's not a bit like that. It's exactly like that.
~ Unknown
It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.
~ Yogi Berra
People who see what's coming have faulty chronology, that is all.
~ Howard Jacobson
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.
~ Niels Bohr
I used to agree with Kurt Vonnegut, who said that the human race has a snowball's chance in hell of being around a hundred years from now.
~ Pete Seeger
I'm a lousy predictor of the future.
~ Guy Kawasaki
I can't predict the future and I don't have respect for people who try to.
~ Jackie Mason
Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.
~ Madeleine Albright
And as we should all know by now, anytime you predict failure you have an excellent chance of being right.
~ Jeff Lindsay, Dexter By Design
Predictions are difficult to make, particularly when they concern the future." —Pierre Dac
~ Marc Levy
Some people exude their futures, good or bad.
~ Unknown
I don't think the heavy stuff is gonna come down for quite a while!" ? Bill Murray character in Cadyshack
~ Unknown
It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.
~ Yogi Berra
The future will show whether my foresight is as accurate now as it has proved heretofore.
~ Nikola Tesla
Forecasting is very difficult, especially when it involves the future.
~ Yogi Berra
Prediction is very hard, particularly when it's about the future.
~ Yogi Berra
Never make bad predictions, especially about the futture.
~ Casey Stengel
Making predictions is tough. Especially for the future.
~ Yogi Berra
Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future.
~ Walter Lord
It is very difficult to make an accurate prediction, especially about the future.
~ Niels Bohr
Forecasts are difficult to make-particularly those about the future.
~ Samuel Goldwyn