Quotes About Future Forecasting

#1. Future forecasting is all about testing strategies - it's like a wind tunnel.

Jamais Cascio

#2. There is no other possibility for possessing certitude with regard to one's life apart from self-abandonmen t, in a continuous crescendo, into the hands of a love that seems to grow constantly because it has its origin in God.

Pope Benedict XVI

#3. The only thing I cannot predict is the future

Amit Trivedi

#4. 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.

Derek Thompson

#5. I am very self-conscious a lot of the time.

Robert Smith

#6. I subject my sentences and the words to a kind of Grand Inquisition.

Lynne Tillman

#7. Forecasting our futures is built into our psyches because we will soon have to manage that future. We have no choice. No matter how often we fail, we can never stop trying.

Alan Greenspan

#8. once we wrapped the globe in endless circles of wires crossing the deserts and beneath the oceans, decentralization was not only possible, but inevitable.

Kevin Kelly

#9. There is no practice more dangerous than that of borrowing money

George Washington

#10. It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what is going to happen in the future, and any investment plan that is dependent on accurately forecasting where markets will be next year is doomed to failure.

Barry Ritholtz

#11. A forecasting game is a kind of simulation, a kind of scenario, a kind of teleconference, a kind of artifact from the future - and more - that enlists the participants as 'first-person forecasters.'

Howard Rheingold

#12. After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in protecting the country, you think you can be part of it, but you come back home and it's worse than ever.

Quincy Jones

#13. I deal in facts, not forecasting the future. That's crystal ball stuff. That doesn't work.

Peter Lynch

#14. To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

Joe Namath

#15. (Picture of a pirate standing on a treasure chest) It's not about the chest, it's all about the booty.

Jarod Kintz

#16. I have seen the future and it's like the present, only longer.

Dan Quisenberry

#17. Patents have long served as a fundamental cog in the American machine, cherished in our national soul.

James Gleick

#18. We make each other alive; it doesn't make a difference if it hurts.

Ingmar Bergman

#19. The Cowles Commission was the optimal environment for the type of research that I wanted to do.

Gerard Debreu

#20. In the film industry, we tend to pick up where others have left off, and I'd like to think the influences I picked up from Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Sylvester Stallone and Jean-Claude Van Damme are visible in my work.

Scott Adkins

#21. The goal of forecasting is not to predict the future but to tell you what you need to know to take meaningful action in the present

Paul Saffo

#22. Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart, yet both actively working together.

Augustus Hare

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

Yogi Berra

#24. Would she really abandon me, her own dear brother? Leave me to a fate worse than death, although certainly including it? I didn't think she would, not willingly. I took a sip of water and tried to think it through. She

Jeff Lindsay