Prediction Quotes

Stop trying to predict the direction of the stock market, the economy or elections.

I say something, and then it usually happens. Maybe not on schedule, but it usually happens.

Fooling around with alternating currents is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever. It's too dangerous . . . it could kill a man as quick as a bolt of lightning. Direct current is safe.

Sometimes I feel a lot of things but I keep it in. I'm sure we all have this built-in radar of what we predict and when it happens, we feel 'I knew it'.

If you know a country's geography, you can understand and predict its foreign policy.

If you were surprised when Nixon resigned, just watch what happens when I whup Foreman's behind!

Nobody can predict the future; the idea is to have a firm grasp of the present.

This is impossible to predict. War may break out unexpectedly.

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails. One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible. Nevertheless, no one doubts that we are confronted with a causal connection whose causal components are in the main known to us. Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.

It is not given to human beings, happily for them, for otherwise life would be intolerable, to foresee or to predict to any large extent the unfolding course of events.

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time.

I’m young, I’m handsome, I’m fast, I’m pretty, and can’t possibly be beat. They must fall in the round I call.

It will take a thousand years for the frontier to reach the Pacific

We'll have infinite bandwidth in a decade's time.

I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.

The crowd did not dream when they laid down their money that they would see a total eclipse of the Sonny!

There are two processes which we adopt consciously or unconsciously when we try to prophesy. We can seek a period in the past whose conditions resemble as closely as possible those of our day, and presume that the sequel to that period will, save for some minor alterations, be similar. Secondly, we can survey the general course of development in our immediate past, and endeavor to prolong it into the near future. The first is the method the historian; the second that of the scientist. Only the second is open to us now, and this only in a partial sphere.

Careful observers may foretell the hour(By sure prognostics) when to dread a show'r.While rain depends, the pensive cat gives o'erHer frolics, and pursues her tail no more.

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

Mark my word - A combination airplane and motor car is coming.

Prediction is difficult- particularly when it involves the future.

Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.

There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.

We who have seen him now, light on his feet, smooth moving as a leopard, a young man with an old man's science, the most beautiful fighting machine I have ever seen, may live to see him fat, slow, old, and bald taking a beating from a younger man. But I would like to hazard a prediction that whoever beats Joe Louis in an honest fight in the next fifteen years will have to get up the floor to do it.

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

If you go into what I call a bubble boom, every bubble bursts.

If it were possible for us to have so deep an insight into a man's character as shown both in inner and in outer actions, that every, even the least, incentive to these actions and all external occasions which affect them were so known to us that his future conduct could be predicted with as great a certainty as the occurrence of a solar or lunar eclipse, we could nevertheless still assert that the man is free.

He who would foresee what is to happen should look to what has happened: for all that is has its counterpart in time past.

I can predict with absolute certainty that within another generation there will be another world war if the nations of the world do not concert the method by which to prevent it.

I predict that this will be the greatest book ever and it will sell more than any other book in history

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Books will soon be obsolete in the schools... Our school system will be completely changed in the next ten years.

With a wonderful business, you can figure out what will happen; you can't figure out when it will happen. You don't want to focus on when, you want to focus on what. If you're right about what, you don't have to worry about when

In my view, [the trade deficit] will create political turmoil at some point...Pretty soon, I think there will be a big adjustment.

We know enough to be sure that the scientific achievements of the next fifty years will be far greater, more rapid, and more surprising, than those we have already experienced. ... Wireless telephones and television, following naturally upon the their present path of development, would enable their owner to connect up to any room similarly equipped and hear and take part in the conversation as well as if he put his head in through the window.

Prediction is very hard, particularly when it's about the future.

When you come to the fight Don't block the halls and don't block the door, for y'all may go home after round four.

Forecasting is very difficult, especially when it involves the future.

I have determined that there is no market for talking pictures

If Macintosh hadn't been successful, then I should have just thrown in the towel, because my vision of the whole industry would have been totally wrong.

Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.

Now you see me, now you don't. George thinks he will, but I know he won't!

I'am not predictor of fights, but I know when I hit 'em good, the fight is close to an end

It is apparent to me that the possibilities of the aeroplane, which two or three years ago were thought to hold the solution to the [flying machine] problem, have been exhausted, and that we must turn elsewhere.

I have to say that in 1981, making those decisions, I felt like I was providing enough freedom for 10 years. That is, a move from 64k to 640k felt like something that would last a great deal of time. Well, it didn't - it took about only 6 years before people started to see that as a real problem.

Radio is just a fashion contrivance that will soon die out. It is obvious that there never will be invented a proper receiver!

I don't think there will be a woman Prime Minister in my lifetime.

Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.

It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.

Good players skate to the puck. Great players skate to where the puck is going to be.

We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to do with information.

You think the world was shocked when Nixon resigned? Wait till I whup George Foreman's behind.

The so called unconscious inferences can be traced back to the all-preserving memory, which presents us with parallel experiences and hence already knows the consequences of an action. It is not anticipation of the effects; rather, it is the feeling: identical causes, identical effects . . .

Sonny Liston is great. But he'll fall in eight.

I can't speak for the future. I have no crystal ball.

Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and imprison the rays of the sun.

We shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium.

The Noah rule: Predicting rain doesn't count; building arks does.