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I never try to make any far-reaching predictions, so much can happen that it simply only makes you look stupid a few years later.
— Linus Torvalds
Now when a man is as right as that in his forecasts, there is some reason to think he may be right in his premises.
— Frank Sheed
Error held as truth has much the effect of truth. In politics and religion this fact upsets many confident predictions.
— George Iles
Four predictions of the Big Bang Theory have now been verified - surely enough to quench even the most biased critics.
— Joseph Silk
That's not a prediction, that's a spoiler.
— Paul Heyman
For Mother Nature, opinions and predictions don't count; surviving is what matters.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
My approach works not by making valid predictions but by allowing me to correct false ones.
— George Soros
It is quite clear to me that the Tory Party will get rid of Mrs Thatcher in about 3 years time.
— Harold Wilson
A piece of paper doesn't make you a pastor any more than making predictions makes you a prophet.
— D.R. Silva
Utopianism substitutes glorious predictions and unachievable promises for knowledge, science, and reason, while laying claim to them all.
— Mark R. Levin
Dreams, and predictions of astrology ... ought to serve but for winter talk by the fireside.
— Francis Bacon
The aeroplane will never fly.
— Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane
Astrological prayers seem to me to be built on as good reason as the predictions.
— Benjamin Stillingfleet
Babson became a sought-after public speaker, and the newspapers reported his predictions as newsworthy events.
— Walter Friedman
Music is no longer tasted it is swallowed.
— Jules Verne
Tetlock's words, even when their predictions prove
— Steven D. Levitt
Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining.
— Bill Gaede
You can only predict things after they have happened.
— Eugene Ionesco
Social Security has been effective for 70 years; prior predictions of its demise have been totally overstated.
— Grace Napolitano
A very friendly boom, like a pair of gleeful handclaps.
— James Lighthill
Predictions are just good guesses or stories for the gullible.
— Wynne Channing
My biggest prediction for the future is that people are going to start looking after individual investors.
— John C. Bogle
I don't think a reporter should give advice or make predictions.
— Peter Jennings
Hair-braiding salons and mystic shops littered the block, but she didn't need a psychic to predict her cards read "royally screwed.
— Katherine McIntyre
Agnes was the worst prophet that's ever existed. Because she was always right. That's why the book never sold.
— Neil Gaiman
Berkshireis in the business of making easy predictions If a deal looks too hard, the partners simply shelve it.
— Charlie Munger
I have learned not to do predictions. It's not helpful, psychologically. I don't sit and fret about things.
— Mumia Abu-Jamal
Prediction is difficult, especially the future.
— Niels Bohr
What do you call an economist with a prediction? Wrong.
— Robert Kuttner
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.
— Walter A. Shewhart
a good theory is characterized by the fact that it makes a number of predictions that could in principle be disproved or falsified by observation.
— Stephen Hawking
Correct predictions result in understanding. Incorrect predictions result in confusion and prompt you to pay attention.
— Steven Kotler
It is not the words or the actions you should trust, rather the pattern.
— Shannon L. Alder
My track record is pretty good on predictions.
— Ann Coulter
Predictions of failure have never stopped those whose ambitions are driven by their unwavering vision.
— Nabil N. Jamal
The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action.
— W. Edwards Deming
I think people are going to return to sanity when they see how ridiculous many of these charges are, and how the predictions are not borne out.
— Dixie Lee Ray
I'm not trying to frighten you, but only a fool makes predictions based on ignorance; I am not that sort of fool.
— Robert A. Heinlein
There is an excellent way to make predictions without the slightest risk of error: predict the past.
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
An experiment disproving a prediction is discovery.
— Enrico Fermi
A prediction, in a field where prediction is not possible, is no more than a prejudice.
— Malcolm Gladwell
Predictions are preposterous.
— Jackie Mason
We're mortal, yet without a known expiration date. It's an inevitable fate worthy of acceptance, but not deserving of predictions.
— Joe Peterson
Love isn't about predictions or behavioural markers. It just happens, and you have no control.
— Jamie McGuire
All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong.
— Stewart Brand
As we explore these possibilities wemust remember that they are just that
- not predictions or prophecies. — Gerard O'Neill
Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia.
— Dionysius Lardner
Absolute prediction is completion ... is death!
— Frank Herbert
This is my prediction for the future: Whatever hasn't happened will happen, and no one will be safe from it.
— John B. S. Haldane
Predictions of surprising events always prove more accurate if not set down on paper beforehand.
— Carl Sagan
We must now allow ourselves to be blinded to long-term developments by the intensity of the short-term difficulties.
— Stafford Cripps
Management is prediction.
— W. Edwards Deming
Science is about predictions based on predictable fact. Life is about surprises based on the unpredictable reality.
— Ori Hofmekler
It will be years - not in my time - before a woman will become Prime Minister
— Margaret Thatcher
There are no practical alternatives to air transportation.
— Daniel Goldin
If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing.
— David Douglass
The only thing that we know about financial predictions of start-ups is that 100 percent of them are wrong
— Brad Feld
To squander a fortune in public money, billions and billions, stubbornly carrying on with a Concorde we can only sell to ourselves.
— Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber
The reliance on the heuristic caused predictable biases (systematic errors) in their predictions.
— Daniel Kahneman
Intuitive predictions need to be corrected because they are not regressive and therefore are biased.
— Daniel Kahneman
Perhaps the safest prediction we can make about the future is that it will surprise us.
— George Leonard
A rational prediction has an explanation based on theory.
— W. Edwards Deming
Predictions are nice, if you can make them. But the essence of science lies in explanation, laying bare the fundamental mechanisms of nature.
— M. Mitchell Waldrop
Oh well, I suppose lots of people will do it now.
— Arthur Whitten Brown
This fellow Charles Lindbergh will never make it. He's doomed.
— Harry Frank Guggenheim
I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results.
— Murray Gell-Mann
It is our common experience as human beings that the results of social forces seem to admit only of 'probabilistic' predictions.
— John Harsanyi
I have yet to see a successful prediction about the physical world that was inferred or extrapolated from the content of any religions document.
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Predictions are hard, especially abot the future.
— Niels Bohr
It's always difficult to make predictions about the future.
— Hermann E. Ott