Quotes About Speculation

Does anyone else day dream about what it would be like if specific age groups just dropped dead all across the world?

Eighty percent of what everyone's talking about never happens. I don't mean in terms of product development that's happening right now, I'm talking about the far-flung visions of the future.

A unicorn is a donkey from the future

The term bubble should indicate a price that no reasonable future outcome can justify.

The principles of successful stock speculation are based on the supposition that people will continue in the future to make the mistakes that they have made in the past.

It's nonsensical to derive a price/earnings ratio by dividing the known current price by unknown future earnings.

Blade Runner was an incredibly influential movie, in terms of the way that it envisioned what the future was going to look like.

The future is like the moon. You never expect to go there, or think about what it might be like.

You can never properly predict the future as it really turns out. So you are doing something a little different when you write science fiction. You are trying to take a different perspective on now.

Asking me why I did or didn't do anything is generally pointless. How do I know? And asking me what I'll do in the future is even less rewarding.

The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences and the goal of all speculation.

I said to the wife, Guess what I heard in the pub? They reckon the milkman has made love to every woman in this road except one. And she said, I'll bet it's that stuck up Phyllis at number 23.

It was the first time I had spoken to them directly. In doing so, I felt myself cross a fine but very distinct line, the line between speculating about the existence of a metaphysical plane of some sort and climbing aboard for the ride. I knew I had let go of my sanity. It was terrifying. I only did it because my fear of what was happening to my body had become greater than my fear of holding on to rational beliefs.

Sometimes you have to look into every possibility, even the dumb ones.

va savoir ce qu'il se passe dans la tête d'un bot", a répondu Wilken avec un regard en coin dans ma direction. J'ai gardé les yeux rivés devant moi.

The ability of individuals to extract wealth from society by profiting from land also leads to cultural degeneration and a loss of social cohesion over time... In general, as the value of land increases, the return on capital tends to decrease comparatively, which discourages business owners from investing in capital goods and private enterprise... Resources flow away from endeavours that can create jobs, produce wealth, and enliven society, and instead flow into land speculation.

The lesson is: Even if you know exactly what is going on in your system, measure performance, don't speculate. You'll learn something, and nine times out of ten, it won't be that you were right!

My wife and I own a cat we call Eureka, after Dorothy's cat in the fourth Oz book. In Eureka's dim mind she must be a kind of polytheist, fed as she is by the two of us, and by neighbors when we take a trip; surrounded on all sides by giant creatures who move about on their hind legs to do things utterly beyond her ken. But we who are her gods have a power of speculation far greater than that of her tiny feline brain.

I suspect there could be life and intelligence out there in forms that we can't conceive. And there could, of course, be forms of intelligence beyond human capacity – beyond as much as we are beyond a chimpanzee

And it's often better to read first-rate science fiction than second-rate science – it's far more stimulating, and perhaps no more likely to be wrong.) Indeed

One becomes a theologian by living, by dying, and by being damned, not by understanding, reading, and speculation.

Death would soon carry off Zola as well, although in his case the suspicion existed, and still exists, that he was murdered. No concrete evidence was ever produced to prove this, and yet the circumstances of his death were sufficiently odd to encourage speculation.

Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.

In speculation, you should put your money into ventures that genuinely attract you, and only those.