Top 100 Quotes About Predictions
#1. I don't think a reporter should give advice or make predictions.
Peter Jennings
#2. If you go by other people's opinions or predictions,
you'll just end up talking yourself out of something.
If you're running down the track of life thinking that
it's impossible to break life's records,
those thoughts have a funny way of sinking into your feet.
Carl Lewis
#3. In science, progress is possible. In fact, if one believes in Bayes' theorem, scientific progress is inevitable as predictions are made and as beliefs are tested and refined.
Nate Silver
#5. Correct predictions result in understanding. Incorrect predictions result in confusion and prompt you to pay attention.
Steven Kotler
#6. Life laughs at predictions and introduces words where we imagined silences, and sudden returns when we thought we would never see each other again.
Jose Saramago
#7. A scientist naturally and inevitably ... mulls over the data and guesses at a solution. He proceeds to testing of the guess by new data-predicting the consequences of the guess and then dispassionately inquiring whether or not the predictions are verified.
Edwin Powell Hubble
#8. It's illegitimate to talk about a post-scarcity Utopia without talking about questions of distribution. There have always been these Utopian predictions - 'electricity too cheap to meter' was the atomic promise of the 1950s.
Mitch Kapor
#9. One, state a hypothesis. Two, predict what will happen. Three, measure results. Four, assess lessons learned by comparing your predictions to actual outcomes.
Vijay Govindarajan
#10. When you heard anyone in the middle of a talk which was being deliberately kept off the Affair announce furtively some piece of political news, generally false but always devoutly to be wished, you could induce from the nature of his predictions where his heart lay.
Marcel Proust
#11. Failure to converge. Confidence limits exceeded.
Further predictions unreliable.
Peter Watts
#12. We need to get environmentalism out of the sphere of religion. We need to stop the mythic fantasies, and we need to stop the doomsday predictions. We need to start doing hard science instead.
Michael Crichton
#13. Both trust and gratitude require the courage to take risks because distrust and resentment, in their need to keep their claim on me, keep warning me how dangerous it is to let go of my careful calculations and guarded predictions.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#14. While I remain troubled by the Corps' inability to fully justify the Model they used for their commercial traffic predictions, America clearly has an aging lock and dam infrastructure on the Mississippi.
Ron Kind
#15. Never be paralyzed by your fears of a future that no one can foretell, even if predictions lead you to the seemingly obvious, and often disparaging, conclusions. That
R.A. Salvatore
#16. My stories are warnings; they're not predictions. If they were predictions, I wouldn't do them. Because then I'd be part of the doom-ridden psychology. But every time I name a problem, I try to give a solution.
Ray Bradbury
#17. She managed to come up with the kind of predictions that you can only understand after the thing has happened," said Anathema. "Like 'Do Notte Buye Betamacks.' That was a prediction for 1972.
Terry Pratchett
#18. The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action.
W. Edwards Deming
#19. History is guided by leaders in turn affected by the sentiments of their population. Such sentiments are cyclical, allowing for predictions of a nation's fall.
Will Slatyer
#20. Intuitive predictions need to be corrected because they are not regressive and therefore are biased.
Daniel Kahneman
#21. The autonomy of her artificial intelligence had surpassed even my wildest predictions.
Folco Chevallier
#22. The game of investing is one of making better predictions about the future than other people. How are you going to do that? One way is to limit your tries to areas of competence. If you try to predict the future of everything, you attempt too much.
Charlie Munger
#23. I figure lots of predictions is best. People will forget the ones I get wrong and marvel over the rest.
Alan Cox
#24. Berkshireis in the business of making easy predictions If a deal looks too hard, the partners simply shelve it.
Charlie Munger
#25. If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing.
David Douglass
#26. We must prove our predictions about the future with action.
George Jackson
#27. Let there be a special place in Hell for pundits who make predictions.
Rick Perlstein
#28. I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years. Two years later we ourselves made flights. This demonstration of my impotence as a prophet gave me such a shock that ever since I have distrusted myself and avoided all predictions.
Wilbur Wright
#29. One of the things that I think we have learned is that we should all be very careful about making predictions about the future.
William J. Clinton
#30. For Mother Nature, opinions and predictions don't count; surviving is what matters.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#31. I am saying that all predictions concerning climate are highly uncertain.
Freeman Dyson
#32. A theory is a good theory if it satisfies two requirements. It must accurately describe a large class of observations on the basis of a model that contains only a few arbitrary elements, and it must make definite predictions about the results of future observations.
Stephen Hawking
#33. There's no point in making predictions. It's not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.
Cristiano Ronaldo
#34. The energy of college football rivals that of a live performance for me. I am an extremely analytical guy and predicting these games is right up my alley, especially with a little luck thrown in. It is even more fun when I am winning and I have to say, I have fared quite well in my predictions.
Rodney Atkins
#35. Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining.
Bill Gaede
#36. I've learned that the best political reporters never make predictions!
Jodi Kantor
#38. Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.
Paul Wellstone
#39. There is always something to worry about. Avoid weekend thinking and ignoring the latest dire predictions of the newscasters. Sell a stock because the company's fundamentals deteriorate, not because the sky is falling.
Peter Lynch
#40. Four predictions of the Big Bang Theory have now been verified - surely enough to quench even the most biased critics.
Joseph Silk
#41. We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wrong way.
Nate Silver
#42. One may say that predictions are dangerous particularly for the future. If the danger involved in a prediction is not incurred, no consequence follows and the uncertainty principle is not violated.
Edward Teller
#44. If to enjoy even an enjoyable present we must have the assurance of a happy future, we are "crying for the moon." We have no such assurance. The best predictions are still matters of probability rather than certainty, and to the best of our knowledge every one of us is going to suffer and die.
Alan W. Watts
#45. I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I've relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true.
Al Gore
#46. But though predictions may be wrong, they are right about the people who voice them, not about their future but about their experience of the present moment
Milan Kundera
#47. It is the ability to make predictions about the future that is the crux of intelligence.
Jeff Hawkins
#48. Prediction and explanation are exactly symmetrical. Explanations are, in effect, predictions about what has happened; predictions are explanations about what's going to happen.
John Rogers Searle
#49. There is an excellent way to make predictions without the slightest risk of error: predict the past.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#50. If you want to be a good intuitive Bayesian - if you want to naturally make good predictions, without having to think about what kind of prediction rule is appropriate - you need to protect your priors. Counterintuitively, that might mean turning off the news.
Brian Christian
#51. That brings her total of real predictions up to two. I should offer her a pay rise
J.K. Rowling
#52. There is no substantive basis for predictions of sizeable global warming due to observed increases in minor greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane and chlorofluorocarbons.
Richard Lindzen
#53. On the night that I was born, my paternal grandfather, Josef Tock, made ten predictions that shaped my life. Then he died in the very minute that my mother gave birth to me.
Dean Koontz
#54. The only thing that we know about financial predictions of start-ups is that 100 percent of them are wrong
Brad Feld
#55. Of course, we could do simulations with random number generators and make statistical predictions about long-term outcomes. But suppose that what looks to us like a random event is really controlled by forces outside our perceptible sphere?
Jonathan Marks
#56. As we explore these possibilities we
must remember that they are just that
- not predictions or prophecies.
Gerard O'Neill
#58. Nature has color-coded groups of individuals so that statistically reliable predictions of their adaptability to intellectual rewarding and effective lives can easily be made and profitably used by the pragmatic man-in-the street.
William Shockley
#59. Self-critical thoughts and detrimental predictions about yourself have a huge impact on our mood/feelings. It affects our attitude, decisions and behavior. They ensure our self-esteem stays low and can create physical illnesses.
Maddy Malhotra
#60. For me personally, the technology that has taken the most unexpected turn in my lifetime is what I refer to as 'the device formerly known as the cell phone.' I still remember many predictions that by 2000 there would only be about a million cell phone users. Boy, were they ever wrong!
Padmasree Warrior
#61. Babson became a sought-after public speaker, and the newspapers reported his predictions as newsworthy events.
Walter Friedman
#62. I've been around since I was 19, I won the Oscar when I was 21, I've had a couple of TV series. I've continued to work despite the predictions of some naysayers.
Marlee Matlin
#63. Your guess [about the future of technology] is as good as mine. The only thing I'm sure of is (a) most of the predictions I hear are almost certainly wrong, and (b) the things that will turn out to be important will come as a surprise, even though in hindsight they'll seem perfectly obvious.
Steve Krug
#64. When I look into the Ericsson's mobility report that has predictions till 2018, the majority of people having mobile broadband by 2018 will be on 3G.
Hans Vestberg
#65. A piece of paper doesn't make you a pastor any more than making predictions makes you a prophet.
D.R. Silva
#66. Predictions are just good guesses or stories for the gullible.
Wynne Channing
#67. Whenever people have used religious documents to make accurate predictions about our base knowledge of the physical world, they have been famously wrong.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#68. Essentially, the frequentist approach toward statistics seeks to wash its hands of the reason that predictions most often go wrong: human error.
Nate Silver
#69. Big data is mostly about taking numbers and using those numbers to make predictions about the future. The bigger the data set you have, the more accurate the predictions about the future will be.
Anthony Goldbloom
#70. Predictions are nice, if you can make them. But the essence of science lies in explanation, laying bare the fundamental mechanisms of nature.
M. Mitchell Waldrop
#71. If Britain votes to leave the European Union, then that could have huge implications for the entire island of Ireland and, given all the predictions, would run counter to the democratic wishes of the Irish people.
Martin McGuinness
#72. Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation?
Thomas Sowell
#73. The thing that people associate with expertise, authoritativeness, kind of with a capital 'A,' don't correlate very well with who's actually good at making predictions.
Nate Silver
#74. In my opinion, poets talk through the symptoms of disease. These symptoms of disease are predictions, screams, and songs.
Kim Hyesoon
#75. Damn you," said Arithon. In a shattering change of mood, he was laughing. "You have it. But what's my word against the grandiloquent predictions of a maudlin and drunken prophet?"
"Maybe everything," Felirin finished gently. "You're too young to live without dreams.
Janny Wurts
#76. The human brain is like a memory system that records every thing that happens to us and makes intelligent predictions based on those experiences.
Daniel Tammet
#77. a good theory is characterized by the fact that it makes a number of predictions that could in principle be disproved or falsified by observation.
Stephen Hawking
#78. I'm not trying to frighten you, but only a fool makes predictions based on ignorance; I am not that sort of fool.
Robert A. Heinlein
#79. I have stressed this distinction because it is an important one. It defines the fundamental difference between probability and statistics: the former concerns predictions based on fixed probabilities; the latter concerns the inference of those probabilities based on observed data.
Leonard Mlodinow
#80. The usefulness of the models in constructing a testable theory of the process is severely limited by the quickly increasing number of parameters which must be estimated in order to compare the predictions of the models with empirical results.
Anatol Rapoport
#81. "I have not made any arrogant, confident, boasting predictions at all. On the contrary, I have stuck hard to my "blood, toil, tears and sweat," to which I have added muddle and mismanagement, and that, to some extend I must admit, is what you have got out of it."
Winston Churchill
#82. We'd had to find each other to finally understand that love could not be controlled. Predictions, assumptions, and absolutes were illusions. My love for him was volatile, uncontrollable, and overpowering, but ... that was love. Love was real.
Jamie McGuire
#83. In 1999, I said that in about a decade we would see technologies such as self-driving cars and mobile phones that could answer your questions, and people criticized these predictions as unrealistic.
Ray Kurzweil
#84. The thing about a theory in science is it allows you make predictions. Evolutionary theory allows us to predict what apples will taste good next harvest.
Bill Nye
#85. Indeed, the uncertainty principle ensures that in the nature of things physics is unable to do more than make statistical predictions.
Neil Postman
#87. I don't read, much less follow, the valuations or predictions. I study the numbers.
John Neff
#88. Love isn't about predictions or behavioural markers. It just happens, and you have no control.
Jamie McGuire
#89. Left Behind takes what to some people may be unbelievable predictions from the Bible and shows how they might play out. It makes the events of biblical prophecy understandable and thus believable.
Jerry B. Jenkins
#90. The more unpredictable the world is the more we rely on predictions.
Steve Rivkin
#91. I don't like being called a denier because deniers don't believe in facts. There are no facts linking the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide with imminent catastrophic global warming there are only predictions based on complex computer models.
David Bellamy
#92. Data-driven predictions can succeed-and they can fail. It is when we deny our role in the process that the odds of failure rise. Before we demand more of our data, we need to demand more of ourselves.
Nate Silver
#93. My approach works not by making valid predictions but by allowing me to correct false ones.
George Soros
#94. It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.
Yogi Berra
#96. Reckless predictions of the second coming of Christ create an artificial excitement among believers followed by a corresponding depression. In addition, it hardens skeptics in their unbelief and provides new fodder for cynics to mock the Christian faith.
Doug Batchelor
#97. I never try to make any far-reaching predictions, so much can happen that it simply only makes you look stupid a few years later.
Linus Torvalds
#98. I hate to make predictions, but I think the economy is going to be permanently changed for the worse. I think our foreign policy is going to lead to changes that will be definitely for the worse, particularly if we drift into a nuclear Iran, which I gather that's what the administration is doing.
Thomas Sowell
#99. It is difficult and even dangerous to make predictions - especially about the future - of the bilateral relationship.
Patrick Mendis
#100. I believe that we are going to have a much deeper appreciation of what kinds of abnormalities in cancer cells and in the surrounding cells that feed and respond to cancers are vulnerabilities that will allow us to make better predictions of which kinds of drugs will work to treat these cancers.
Harold E. Varmus
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