Predicting Quotes

• It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Business, Future

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• The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

  Alan Kay

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Twitter post from Jan 30, 2017

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• The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.

  Eric Hoffer

  Future, Power, Shapes

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.

  Lord Kelvin

  Silly, Creativity, Science

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• The best way to predict the future is to create it.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.

  Peter Drucker

  Country, Business, Future

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• An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Funny, Business, Future

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• The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Positive, Being Happy, Uplifting

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• People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it.

  Ray Bradbury

  People, Want, Ask Me

  "Beyond 1984: The People Machines". Book by Ray Bradbury, 1979.

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• Two years from now, spam will be solved.

  Bill Gates

  Stupid, Years, Two

  "Tech’s Most Dubious Promises, From Bill Gates to Elon Musk". www.wired.com. July 26, 2017.

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• Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.

  Niels Bohr

  Inspirational, Funny, Time

  "NIELS BOHR DOODLE GOOGLE: Great quotes from a man at the nucleus of atomic understanding" by Michael Cavna, www.washingtonpost.com. October 7, 2012.

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• I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper.

  Gary Cooper

  Silly, Fall, Dumb

  "Gone with the Wind/ Trivia". www.imdb.com. 1939.

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• Television won't last because people will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.

  Darryl F. Zanuck

  Tired, Technology, Night

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• A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service: The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible.

  Frederick W. Smith

  Ideas, Yale, Order

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• There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.

  Albert Einstein

  Mean, Nuclear, Investing

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com. 1932.

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• The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?

  David Sarnoff

  Silly, Creativity, Dumb

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• Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.

  Laozi

  Knowledge, Taoism, Trends

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• There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable.

  John Langdon-Davies

  Energy, Atoms, Nuclear

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

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Exercise, Self, Innovation

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• If you can predict the rate at which you create (or create and grow) qualified pipeline, and you know your average close rate(s), then you can start predicting your revenue.

  Aaron Ross

  Average, Insightful, Pipeline

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• I like science fiction. Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick and Vonnegut, and I really like Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale. And you know, so much of science fiction has to do with predicting what’s to come, so I think that’s really interesting.

  Conor Oberst

  Thinking, Interesting, Fiction

  "Ben Gibbard’s Seventh-Album Stretch". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 13, 2011.

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

  W. Timothy Garvey

  Education, Past, Intelligence

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• As it turns out, the scientific community has been addressing this particular question for some time now and they say that increased heavy snowfalls are completely consistent with what they have been predicting as a consequence of man-made global warming.

  Al Gore

  Men, Weather, Community

  "Al Gore Explains 'Snowmageddon'" by Gene J. Koprowski, www.foxnews.com. February 03, 2011.

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• 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.

  Michio Kaku

  Years, People, Appreciate

  "The Introduction to my Newly Released Book, Physics of the Future!" by Michio Kaku, bigthink.com. 2017.

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