Predictions Quotes

Predictions Quote of the day

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

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.

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?

Hope is not a prediction of the future, it's a declaration of what is possible.

We must prove our predictions about the future with action.

What's the use of having developed a science well enough to make predictions if, in the end, all we're willing to do is stand around and wait for them to come true?

As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction

My approach works not by making valid predictions but by allowing me to correct false ones.

That's not a prediction, that's a spoiler.

An experiment disproving a prediction is discovery.

It is quite clear to me that the Tory Party will get rid of Mrs Thatcher in about 3 years time.

When you have two competing theories that make exactly the same predictions, the simpler one is the better.

While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility.

Rule 1. Original data should be presented in a way that will preserve the evidence in the original data for all the predictions assumed to be useful.

A plan is an example of what could happen, not a prediction of what will happen.

I never make predictions and I never will.

My biggest prediction for the future is that people are going to start looking after individual investors.

Having established that good ideas do indeed come in from the cold, start on the fringes and become mainstream, can we make any predictions about what the next move will be?

I accept that climate change is a challenge, I accept the broad theory about global warming. I am sceptical about a lot of the more gloomy predictions.

This is my prediction for the future: Whatever hasn't happened will happen, and no one will be safe from it.

I don't think a reporter should give advice or make predictions.

The aeroplane will never fly.

You can only predict things after they have happened.

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.

I have learned not to do predictions. It's not helpful, psychologically. I don't sit and fret about things.

We're the tortoise that has outrun the hare because it chose the easy predictions.

Berkshireis in the business of making easy predictions If a deal looks too hard, the partners simply shelve it.

The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action.

All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong.

Nobody wants a prediction that the future will be more or less like the present, even if that is, statistically speaking, an excellent prediction.

Global warming isn't a prediction. It is happening.

Science is about predictions based on predictable fact. Life is about surprises based on the unpredictable reality.

I never make a prediction that can be proved wrong within 24 hours.

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

...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.

The aeroplane is tragically unsuited for ocean service.

Never make bad predictions, especially about the futture.

One very important aspect of string theory is definitely testable. That was the prediction of supersymmetry, which emerged from string theory in the early '70s.

Making predictions is tough. Especially for the future.

Although our eyes can not penetrate the darkness of the future, scientific geopolitical analysis enables us to make certain predictions.

A rational prediction has an explanation based on theory.

I'm not trying to frighten you, but only a fool makes predictions based on ignorance; I am not that sort of fool.

A prediction about the direction of the stock market tells you nothing about where stocks are headed, but a whole lot about the person doing the predicting.

Management is prediction.

To squander a fortune in public money, billions and billions, stubbornly carrying on with a Concorde we can only sell to ourselves.

The only thing that we know about financial predictions of start-ups is that 100 percent of them are wrong

A prediction is a prediction because it's predictable.

Utopianism substitutes glorious predictions and unachievable promises for knowledge, science, and reason, while laying claim to them all.

The one prediction that never comes true is, 'You'll thank me for telling you this.

You can't make money with a consensus accurate prediction.