Top 180 Predicting Quotes & Sayings

I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.

I'm the only one who was predicting the Nintendo Wii would beat Sony's PlayStation 3.

Charts are great for predicting the past.

That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you.

I never want to be in the business of predicting what the U.S. Supreme Court will do.

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.

If a person can turn from predicting illness to anticipating recovery, the foundation for cure is laid.

Predicting the market is always tough.

They're not predicting global warming based on what's happened in the past; they're basing it on what their computer predictions say, and nothing more.

I don't think I've had any great success in predicting politics or social change, nor have I really tried.

I won't say 'See you tomorrow' because that would be like predicting the future, and I'm pretty sure I can't do that.

I'm not really good with predicting.

Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.

Prediction is certainly a valuable goal in science, but not the only one. Explanation is also important, and there are plenty of sciences that do a lot of explaining and not much predicting.

'Profit' in my mind is as good as television gets, and if that didn't make it, all bets are off on really predicting what's going to work and what's not.

I stopped predicting the future a long time ago.

The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine.

It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.

No more prizes for predicting the rain, only prizes for building the arks

Predicting oil prices is anyone's guess.

I don't think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the 'experiment.'

Sometimes you have intuitive insight about how you think things are going to be, and you write that. Other times you fantasize completely, which has nothing to do with predicting the future.

Even though all that CO2 has been spewed and belched into the atmosphere, there isn't any warming. Therefore, the person, people, whatever, predicting global warming for any reason have been wrong for 20 consecutive years. Every year for 20 years the supporters of this theory have been wrong, as wrong as it's possible to be. That means that the person predicting global warming is not credible and does not deserve to be listened to.

I typically don't get into predicting the success of my projects. I've been involved with a lot of projects that I thought should have really gained notoriety and furthered my career, only to be met with the cold grasp of disappointment. So I typically stay away from predicting how a film will do.

Within 2 years Im predicting...that youre going to see a suitcase nuke in this country. Youre probably going to see a release in a few years of something communicable. & I am predicting that you will see a lot of conventional bombings...in the next year or so.

To understand the difficulty of predicting the next 100 years, we have to appreciate the difficulty that the people of 1900 had in predicting the world of 2000.

Wait a minute. What did you just say? You're predicting $4-a-gallon gas? ... That's interesting. I hadn't heard that.

Knowledge is telling the past. Wisdom is predicting the future.

Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does.

My specific goal is to revolutionize the future of the species. Mathematics is just another way of predicting the future.

Predicting and responding to the global economy will be the biggest challenge.

I don't build a house without predicting the end of the present social order.

I don't always do a lot of predicting, but, when I get a really strong feeling about something, I will tell people.

To tell you the truth, there are all these websites predicting my early death, and it's starting to work on me!

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

My mother always told me growing up I had a punchable face. Little did I know she was predicting my television career.

Predicting recessions is indeed a dark art, but I think we are several years away from the next one.

No one is predicting that the Democrats will get the 30 pickups they need to take back the House majority.

A serious prophet upon predicting a flood should be the first man to climb a tree. This would demonstrate that he was indeed a seer.

Memorizing, guessing, looking at pictures, predicting, substituting, and skipping, are not reading; they are very bad habits.

Insofar as international law is observed, it provides us with stability and order and with a means of predicting the behavior of those with whom we have reciprocal legal obligations.

Foresight is not about predicting the future, it's about minimizing surprise.

You could claim that moving from pixelated perception, where the robot looks at sensor data, to understanding and predicting the environment is a Holy Grail of artificial intelligence.

I believe there is true expertise in some endeavors, and not in others. There is obviously no such thing as expertise in predicting the results of coin tosses, but there is expertise in predicting the behavior of lasers.

I am not predicting here that Obama will fail like Jimmy Carter. What I am predicting is the Republican Party is not extinct and will after a period of time become a strong opposition party.

Markets work best when there's lots of information available and a historical track record to go on; they excel at predicting things like horse races, election outcomes, and box-office results. But they're bad at predicting things like who will be the next Supreme Court nominee, as that depends on the whim of the president.

I'm no good at predicting what will endure with people. I only know what speaks to me.

The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.

Science fiction is about extrapolation, looking back through history, spotting a trend, and predicting where it will go.

I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.

Experts say this global warming is serious, and they are predicting now that by the year 2050, we will be out of party ice.

I've become increasingly fascinated with social media to improve on traditional ways of preparing for and predicting the future.

It is hard to have great confidence in predicting what market reactions to Fed decisions will be.

Not being optimistic falls a long way short of predicting that all is finished.

Theater is a very changeable art. It responds to the moment in history the way the newspaper does, and there's no predicting what to come up with next.

We're emphasizing the knowable by predicting how certain people and companies will swim against the current. We're not predicting the fluctuation in the current.

I was not predicting the future, I was trying to prevent it.

Common stock investors can make money by predicting the outcomes of practice evolution. You can't derive this by fundamental analysis - you must think biologically.

One of the persistent ironies of reform is the impossibility of predicting the full consequences of change.

I'm a historian. The act of predicting the future discomfits me, in any event - and the bigger the prediction, the more distrusting I am.