Quotes About Speculation

History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.

In counterfactual history, nothing is certain.

Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.

I like to imagine the "what ifs" of history.

Rumors are the children of truth.

Adolphus is not at his desk. That means he is somewhere in the Monstrumarium, has gone home for the day, or is dead.

You never know what's going to happen with this crazy world of sports entertainment, so I would never rule out the fact that Rock wants to come home.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.

But teleological considerations can lead no further than to a belief and a hope. They do not give certainty.

For any speculation which does not at first glance look crazy, there is no hope.

When the great innovation appears, it will almost certainly be in muddled, incomplete and confusing form. ... For any speculation which does not at first glance look crazy, there is no hope.

Consciously paying more for a stock than its calculated value - in the hope that it can soon be sold for a still-higher price - should be labelled speculation

I often daydream about the future, thinking of the world in 100, 200 years, imagining what it looks like, feels like. I hope that my books are like ghosts that will inhabit this future.

We have a swarm of people in the stock market - not out of knowledge, not out of expectation, but out of basically a gambling instinct, the hope that prices will go up.

The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.

Probably in a parallel universe not far from here, I'm working for Nintendo.

It's still all "ifs" "buts" and "maybes".' 'Maybe, ' I said. 'But if what I'm saying is correct …

It's a bubble. It has to have intrinsic value. You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven't been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.

The evolution theory is purely the product of the imagination.

It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.

Science fiction really is the only genre that lets you use your imagination without limitations.

Wondering is a positive madness.

In the year 2525, that song will be even less popular than when it first came out.