Quotes About Predict

The press is still investing itself, it seems to me, in a sort of cynicism. It comes out better for them if they can predict hard times, bogging down, sniping, attrition.

It is so impossible to predict how much influence what you write will have, and what sorts of anxieties and imaginaries it will tap into.

I consider that I understand an equation when I can predict the properties of its solutions, without actually solving it.

The faculty of art is to change events; the faculty of science is to foresee them. The phenomena with which we deal are controlled by art; they are predicted by science.

In all sorts of markets—music, film, art, and politics—the future of popularity will be harder to predict as the broadcast power of radio and television democratizes and the channels of exposure grow.... The gatekeepers had their day. Now there are simply too many gates to keep.

Westerns are very difficult to predict whether they'll reach an audience or not.

It's impossible to predict crises - or to control them once they hit - but you can absolutely prime yourself to ride them out as best as possible.

The one way of guaranteeing to fail is to assume that we will.

Despite all of our technological advances, content creation still requires time, inspiration, and a certain amount of sweat. There aren't any shortcuts. You can't write an algorithm for it. You can't predict it. You can't code it.

Technology business increasingly becomes difficult to predict because technology itself is accelerating in change, and human nature and markets are more stagnant and static. But the dynamic engine of technological innovation continues unabated.

I hope I left behind a legacy that people will enjoy. But whatever they want to say, I can't predict.

there remains the big picture, the question of how much randomness contributes to where we are in life and how well we can predict where we are

Society may predict, but only I can determine my destiny.

Since emotions are few and reasons are many (said the robot Giscard) the behavior of a crowd can be more easily predicted than the behavior of one person.

In other words, the shift from "predict and control" to "measure and react" is not just technological—although technology is needed—but psychological.

Another reason controls should precede strategy is that, as we learned in chapter 7, you can't calculate the probability of a trade's being profitable; you can only calculate your exposure. So all you can do is manage your losses, not predict profits.

This age of terror will end one day, but whether our society can restore the feeling of freedom that once was our birthright is hard to predict.

To me, all success is a delightful surprise, since one can absolutely never predict it.

If I were of a philosophical frame of mind I might wonder to what extent any one of us is in control of our own destiny, or if indeed we can ever predict the far-reaching consequences of actions which, at the time, may seem entirely trivial.

If I want to speculate wildly about the future, I have my science fiction. Anybody who tells you they can predict the future is either crazy or lying.

I've had experiences in my life that leave no doubt in my mind about the fact that God exists. I'm quite willing to debate people who don't think so because I want them to explain to me how did our solar system get so organized and how is the universe so complex and yet well-organized that we can predict 70 years hence when a comet is coming?

But of course, all of this is just a silly fad, and when you add an e to fad, you get fade. And I predict this fad will fade.

She could understand and analyze and predict the exact outcome of her crazy, self-destructive behavior and then go ahead and do it anyway.

All knowledge is conjectural and ... science progresses through new theories coming to replace older ones when it becomes clear that a new theory is able to make sense of a greater circle of phenomena than are comprehended and explained by the older one and is able to predict new phenomena more accurately.