Quotes About Speculation

Then there might be dead people.

Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.

The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like.

The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work.

It's bad policy to speculate on what you'll do if a plan fails when you're trying to make a plan work.

You know economists; they're the sort of people who see something works in practice and wonder if it would work in theory.

There are a lot of good things about string theory, and it's great that some people want to work on it.

I have never indulged our society's misguided notion that my personal life is relevant to my work, so any reporting surrounding that is necessarily hearsay, speculation or fantasy.

Do you know what the costliest phrase in technology is? 'It will work because it would be cool if it did.'

I hate gold. It does not pay a dividend, it has no value, and you can't work out what it should or shouldn't be worth," he said. "It is the last refuge of the desperate.

I wish I could say that Carla Bruni's Guess campaign at age 16 led to her current role as First Lady of France, but that might be a stretch.

I made a really good start to my career, and there was a lot of speculation about where I'd end up going. Like I did then, I'm just trying to take this all in my stride and keep my feet on the ground.

The communism of Marx seeks a strong state centralization, and where this exists, there the parasitic Jewish nation - which speculates upon the labor of people - will always find the means for its existence.

Science fiction isn't just thinking about the world out there. It's also thinking about how that world might be - a particularly important exercise for those who are oppressed, because if they're going to change the world we live in, they - and all of us - have to be able to think about a world that works differently.

When I was a kid, there were really only two possible futures in the foreground, which were Orwell's '1984' and Huxley's 'Brave New World'.

Everything, as Peyman said, may be a fiction – but the Future is the biggest shaggy-dog story of all.

In non-technical language, The Singularity is Coming clarifies what may happen and speculates about how it may affect us. It is a compilation of information that includes comments from experts, news announcements of the latest developments, and a comprehensive reading list.

Human consciousness is a big game of make-believe. It's nothing more than mutually fanciful speculation, and the self, consequently, is nothing more than a ridiculous illusion at best and a destructive delusion at worst. We can't know each other's perspective, we only pretend we can. That's why people walk around so terrified of each other most of the time.

Hollywood loves aliens.

Pike, Icicle, Flame, Onyx … if it wasn't one of them, who could it be?

Hmmm,' she said. 'How long do you think it'll last?' 'How would I know?!

And a new reason to hope that Queen Oasis lives for a very, very long time. The night Queen Oasis died,

Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries.

The stock market has predicted nine out of the last five recessions.