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• Suppose one who had always continued blind be told by his guide that after he has advanced so many steps he shall come to the brink of a precipice, or be stopped by a wall; must not this to him seem very admirable and surprising? He cannot conceive how it is possible for mortals to frame such predictions as these, which to him would seem as strange and unaccountable as prophesy doth to others. Even they who are blessed with the visive faculty may (though familiarity make it less observed) find therein sufficient cause of admiration.

  David Berman

  Wall, Blessed, Knowledge

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• The leviathan state, that monster devouring civilization in this century, is in the throes of death. This is not a wish or a prediction, but a conclusion drawn from a broad look at the trends of the last decade and a half, which, if we take the right steps, can continue on into the next century. What has happened around the world - nations states collapsing, markets outwitting planners, citizens rising up against government masters - can and is happening here at home.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Home, Rising Up, Government

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• Senator, my answer is that the independence and integrity of the Supreme Court requires that nominees before this committee for a position on that court not forecast, give predictions, give hints, about how they might rule in cases that might come before the Supreme Court,.

  John Roberts

  Integrity, Giving, Independence

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• There's no point in making predictions. It's not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Soccer, Football, Opportunity

  "In his own words: Ronaldo reveals all about Ferguson, his football dreams and his future". Interview with Bruno Prata, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2008.

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• I never said I will stand, I said I hoped to stand. It wasn't a prediction.

  Christopher Reeve

  Said

  "Man of steel" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2002.

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• I've actually made a prediction that within 30 years a majority of new cars made in the United States will be electric. And I don't mean hybrid, I mean fully electric.

  Elon Musk

  Mean, Years, Car

  "Extended Interview: Tesla Motors Chairman Elon Musk". Interview with Spencer Michels, www.pbs.org. June 25, 2008.

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• 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.

  Marlee Matlin

  Couple, Oscars, Naysayers

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• I don't know anything about politics. I wouldn't put too much into my prediction on politics.

  Norm MacDonald

  Too Much, Knows

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• What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Stupid

  William Law (1739). “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life: Adapted to the State and Condition of All Orders of Christians. By William Law, A.M.”, p.120

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• The prediction that glaciers will be gone from Glacier National Park has been moved up by 10 years to 2020, the same year it's predicted the Arctic Sea will be ice-free in the summer.

  Bill Kurtis

  Summer, Years, Ice

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• Most successful pundits are selected for being opinionated, because it's interesting, and the penalties for incorrect predictions are negligible. You can make predictions, and a year later people won't remember them.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Successful, Years, People

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• Except for some effects that I attribute mostly to age, my intuitive thinking is just as prone to overconfidence, extreme predictions, and the planning fallacy as it was before I made a study of these issues.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Thinking, Issues, Age

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.475, Macmillan

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

  Peter Jennings

  Thinking, Giving, Advice

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• We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wrong way.

  Nate Silver

  Want, Way, Wrong Way

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• The thing that people associate with expertise, authoritativeness, kind of with a capital 'A,' don't correlate very well with who's actually good at making predictions.

  Nate Silver

  People, Kind, Wells

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• My stories are warnings; they're not predictions. If they were predictions, I wouldn't do them. Because then I'd be part of the doom-ridden psychology. But every time I name a problem, I try to give a solution.

  Ray Bradbury

  Names, Giving, Psychology

  Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.131, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• 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.

  John Howard

  Challenges, Climate, Global Warming

  Interview on "Four Corners", ABC TV, August 28, 2006.

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• Every lawyer of experience comes to know (more or less unconsciously) that in the great majority of cases, the precedents are none too good as bases of prediction. Somehow or other, there are plenty of precedents to go around.

  Jerome Frank

  Majority, Lawyer, Precedent

  Jerome Frank (2017). “Law and the Modern Mind”, p.207, Routledge

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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

  Stupid, Years, Trying

  Source: www.linuxfocus.org

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

  Yogi Berra

  Hard

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• I now have had my foggy crystal ball for quite a long time. Its predictions are invariably gloomy and usually correct, but I am quite used to that and they won't keep me from giving you a few suggestions, even if it is merely an exercise in futility whose only effect is to make you feel guilty.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Exercise, Long, Giving

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• Predictions are hard, especially abot the future.

  Niels Bohr

  Hard

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• If the search is for examples that contradict the predictions of standard economic models, a good rule of thumb is to start in France.

  Robert H. Frank

  Economic Models, Example, Thumbs

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• Scientific data are not taken for museum purposes; they are taken as a basis for doing something. If nothing is to be done with the data, then there is no use in collecting any. The ultimate purpose of taking data is to provide a basis for action or a recommendation for action. The step intermediate between the collection of data and the action is prediction.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Taken, Museums, Data

  Journal of the American Statistical Association On a Classification of the Problems of Statistical Inference Volume 37, Number 218, June 1942 (p. 173)

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• We're mortal, yet without a known expiration date. It's an inevitable fate worthy of acceptance, but not deserving of predictions.

  Joe Peterson

  Fate, Acceptance, Worthy

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