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Predicting the future is a mug's game, but any game is improved when you can actually keep the score. — Douglas Adams

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. — Paul Krugman

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

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

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. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

His voice sounded the same, now so familiar that I could follow the beat in my head, predicting each change of tone, each note of accentuation. — Kelley Armstrong

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. — Stephen Crane

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

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

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. — Rick Perlstein

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

Others can be very hard to solve - two notoriously hard examples are predicting extended weather conditions or stock-market performance. — Anasse Bari

Charts are great for predicting the past. — Peter Lynch

I stopped predicting the future a long time ago. — Fred Durst

Predicting causes litter. — Warren Ellis

People are disposed to mistake predicting troubles for causing troubles and even for desiring troubles. — Enoch Powell

Knowledge is telling the past. Wisdom is predicting the future. — W. Timothy Garvey

Predicting the market is always tough. — Alex Berenson

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

Predicting correctly is the definition of wisdom. — Harry N. MacLean

No more prizes for predicting the rain, only prizes for building the arks — Don Edward Beck

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

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

I've never known Margot to chicken out before, but I suppose in matters of the heart, there's no predicting how a person will or won't behave. — Jenny Han

For ever tear dropped, a new seed within you is planted, from which a garden predicting better days will surely emerge. — Daniel Marques

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

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

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

I am incredibly bad at predicting the future; I am only smart enough to observe the present and listen to my intuition about tendencies. — Rem Koolhaas

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

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

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

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

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

Speculating and predicting what lies beyond the boundary ins fascinating. Finding out is even more fascinating. — Wallace H. Tucker

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. — Frank B. Kellogg

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

Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative. — P. J. O'Rourke

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

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

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

But what I did sense was an emptiness like a black hole inside of him, and there was no predicting what might emerge from a place like that. — Ryu Murakami

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

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

You don't get points for predicting rain. You get points for building arks. — Lou Gerstner

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

It is an economic fact that predicting the future is most valuable when everybody things you are wrong. — Derek Thompson