We Cannot Predict The Future Quotes

#1. We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.

Alan Kay

#2. If we have an atom that is in an excited state and so is going to emit a photon, we cannot say when it will emit the photon. It has a certain amplitude to emit the photon at any time, and we can predict only a probability for emission; we cannot predict the future exactly.

Richard P. Feynman

#3. He believed in himself, believed in his quixotic ambition, letting the failures of the previous day disappear as each new day dawned. Yesterday was not today. The past did not predict the future if he could learn from his mistakes.

Daniel Wallace

#4. When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'

Vince Cable

#5. You couldn't predict what was going to happen for one simple reason: people.

Sara Sheridan

#6. Postulate 1. All chance systems of causes are not alike in the sense that they enable us to predict the future in terms of the past.

Walter A. Shewhart

#7. To make of human affairs a coherent, precise, predictable whole one must ignore or suppress man as he really is. It is by eliminating man from their equation that the makers of history can predict the future, and the writers of history can give a pattern to the past.

Eric Hoffer

#8. I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her grandma could give someone the evil eye, and I'd better not cross her because she had some of that blood in her. Mother always believed that she could predict the future, and she had dreams that came true.

Sam Raimi

#9. The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.

Daniel Kahneman

#10. I'm not trying to PREDICT the future. I'm just trying to PREVENT it.

Ray Bradbury

#11. There will be a new industry, and we are just now in the beginning. I will predict that in twelve or fifteen years there will be tens of thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands of people, that fly and see that black sky.

Burt Rutan

#12. I've never been able to predict the future of anything.

Bob Edwards

#13. If I want to speculate wildly about the future, I have my science fiction. Anybody who tells you they can predict the future is either crazy or lying.

Karl Schroeder

#14. One can't predict the future, that maybe our training and their fighting capabilities are improving and we are going to make some progress in destroying ISIS.

Bernie Sanders

#15. I find that predicting the course of our lives is like predicting the weather. You might be able to predict your future in the short term, but the longer you look ahead, the less likely you are to be correct.

Leonard Mlodinow

#16. 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.

Peter F. Drucker

#17. What I have figured out is that I can predict the future. I just can't predict when.

Steve Case

#18. Steve Jobs: The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Walter Isaacson

#19. Notwithstanding, therefore, that we have not witnessed of a large continent, yet, as we may predict the future occurrence of such catastrophes, we are authorized to regard them as part of the present order of Nature.

Charles Lyell

#20. Oh, you think it's funny being mean to Sienna on facebook?
I predict a bandaged thumb in the near future
yours.

Sienna McQuillen

#21. We certainly will prepare consciously and professionally, but still you cannot predict the future.

Laurent Jalabert

#22. We are who we choose to be, so we cannot change our past nor predict our future, but we can live each day to the fullest by sharing love and laughter with friends and associates.

Irma Schettini Caiazzo

#23. want to either. We take what is offered us on this earth and live life to the fullest. No one can predict their own future, though many have tried. What will be is what will be in the end. You cannot change the course of time." The king patted Nicholas

Robyn Neeley

#24. Narcotics have been systematically scapegoated and demonized. The idea that anyone can use drugs and escape a horrible fate is ananathema to these idiots. I predict that in the near future, right wingers will use drug hysteria as a pretext to set up an international police apparatus.

Gus Van Sant

#25. Human reason can neither predict nor deliberately shape its own future. Its advances consist in finding out where it has been wrong.

Friedrich August Von Hayek

#26. follows: to understand the future to the point of being able to predict it, you need to incorporate elements from this future itself. If

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#27. People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it. Better yet, build it. Predicting the future is much too easy, anyway. You look at the people around you, the street you stand on, the visible air you breathe, and predict more of the same. To hell with more. I want better.

Ray Bradbury

#28. But the task of science fiction is not to predict the future. Rather, it contemplates possible futures.

Anonymous

#29. Not only can no one predict the future, we don't understand the present - and there isn't even any certainty about the past.

Harry Browne

#30. It is not the words or the actions you should trust, rather the pattern.

Shannon L. Alder

#31. That's what bites about the future
there's no way to predict it. You just have to show up and see what happens.

Kirstin Cronn-Mills

#32. We have the technology to build a global paradise on earth, and at the same time, we have the power to end life as we know it. I am a futurist. I cannot predict the actual future - only what it can be if we manage the earth and its resources intelligently.

Jacque Fresco

#33. Our words reveal our thoughts; our manners mirror our self-esteem; our actions reflect our character; our habits predict the future.

William Arthur Ward

#34. There is nothing more dangerous to the adventurous spirit than a secure future that can predict the same sun on every horizon because they only see the same view.

Shannon L. Alder

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

Peter Drucker

#36. Advantage lies in a capacity to predict the future before your rivals can.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#37. one cannot "predict future events exactly if one cannot even measure the present state of the universe precisely!

Bill Bryson

#38. You can't predict the future, but you can plan for it

Saji Ijiyemi

#39. We are a day away from making history, and a history towards the breaking of tommorrow.

Anthony Liccione

#40. You can only predict things after they have happened.

Eugene Ionesco

#41. We teach people in order to open up their minds and release their captive powers. But we cannot predict the result. Freedom - we free their minds from superstition. We give the people the keys of the future to act therein as they wish.

Tayeb Salih

#42. 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

#43. 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.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#44. Forget the past. You can never predict what the future is going to be. Live for the moment.

Nicole Kidman