Top 1200 Predicting The Future Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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.

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

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

I just feel that I need to set my kid's future as best as I can and my family's future and my friends' future as well.

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

The future is flying home. That's the immediate future. But long-distance future, I plan on being back. I'm not going to end my time here with that loss.

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

At a very young age I was predicting outcomes, trying to take all the information and find the best route to wherever I was going. I avoided a lot of pitfalls because of that.

I'm not engaged in predicting random number generators. I actually get phone calls from people who want to know what lottery numbers are going to win. I don't have a clue.

I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.

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

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

I regret very much to hear so many people, many of my own countrymen, predicting war, stating that Europe is preparing and arming for such a conflict.

I am actually better at predicting or talking about 30 years later than three years.

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.

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.

We're better at predicting events at the edge of the galaxy or inside the nucleus of an atom than whether it'll rain on auntie's garden party three Sundays from now.

So one predicts the future as much as one is cause. The future isn't a pattern laid out to abuse and bully you. The future is a beautiful playground that nobody happens to be combining. You talk about virgin territory - the most virgin territory there is, is the future. You can do anything you want with it. Nobody is doing anything with it.

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

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.

We listen to the entrepreneur. We try to have a fine tuning fork to understand what they are saying and whether that makes sense and know it when we see it. We don't try to do too much predicting.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I don't think of myself predicting things. I'm expressing possibilities. Things that could happen. To a large extent it's a question of how badly people want them to.

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

The future is an unknown, but a somewhat predictable unknown. To look to the future we must first look back upon the past. That is where the seeds of the future were planted. I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

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

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

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.

Every actor, director, and producer want all their films to do well. So you choose the role carefully, listen to the script, and work hard. But there is no way of predicting whether it will be a hit or a flop.

It is not the present which unfluences the future, thou fool, but the future which forms the present. You have it all backward. Since the future is set, an unfolding of events which will assure that future is fixed and inevitable.

There is a future that makes itself and a future we make. The real future is composed of both.

People who are complaining about the Fed are people who've been predicting runaway inflation for five and six years, and it hasn't happened.

As time goes on we become old, the future contracts, the past expands...But by future we don't just mean the years ahead; we always mean as well the plenitude of possibilities which challenge our creativity...In confrontation with the future we can become young if we accept the future's challenges.

Being around a church culture, even leading a gathering of believers, I've gotten pretty good at predicting what's going to happen in a church service.

I hate predicting football scores that mean a lot to me, because even though I'm an absolute materialist and don't believe in anything superstitious, I get superstitious.

The past is past, and the future is yet to come. That means the future is in your hands - the future entirely depends on the present. That realization gives you a great responsibility.

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

There are two kinds of people: one who goes on thinking about the future, not bothering about the present at all. That future is not going to come, that future is just a fool's imagination. I don't think about the future. I am a totally different kind of person. I don't think about the future at all, it is irrelevant.

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

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.

One must plan for the future and anticipate the future without fearing the future.

We are coming to realise that foreign operations in today's world call for a total diplomacy ... Ambassadors can no longer be content with wining and dining, reporting, analysing and cautiously predicting.

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

We've gone from, in the '50s and '60s, being very optimistic about the future, where the future is all spaceships and The Jetsons and flying cars, to where we were just sure the future was going to be a massive pile of rubble.

The great problem with the future is that we die there. This is why it is so hard to take the future personally, especially the longer future, because that world is suffused with our absence.

Our present era, to my mind, is characterized by a profound forgetting of the past. "The future, the future, the future." The 21st century, all the technology obsession.

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

Similarly, knowledge of the future was incompatible with free will. What made it possible for me to exercise freedom of choice also made it impossible for me to know the future. Conversely, now that I know the future, I would never act contrary to that future, including telling others what I know: those who know the future don't talk about it. Those who've read the Book of Ages never admit to it.

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

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

It was like sawdust, the unhappiness: it infiltrated everything, everything was a problem, everything made her cry - school, homework, boyfriends, the future, the lack of future, the uncertainty of future, fear of future, fear in general - but it was so hard to say exactly what the problem was in the first place.

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

Always expect the unexpected. The oil and gas industry is terrible at predicting anything. Always have a back-up plan.