Predicting Quotes

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

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Business, Future

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

  Abraham Lincoln

  Positive, Being Happy, Uplifting

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

  Laozi

  Knowledge, Taoism, Trends

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

  W. Timothy Garvey

  Education, Past, Intelligence

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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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• ... as recently as the mid-1970s, the most well-respected criminologists were predicting that the prison system would soon fade away. Prison did not deter crime significantly, many experts concluded. Those who had meaningful economic and social opportunities were unlikely to commit crimes regardless of the penalty, while those who went to prison were far more likely to commit crimes again in the future.

  Michelle Alexander

  Meaningful, Opportunity, Experts

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• People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it. Better yet, build it. Predicting the future is much too easy, anyway. You look at the people around you, the street you stand on, the visible air you breathe, and predict more of the same. To hell with more. I want better.

  Ray Bradbury

  Future, Air, People

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

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• Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Men, Weapons, Becoming

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• I'm predicting that we'll finally have a computer will search my e-mail automatically and delete every message that begins with 'thought you'd be interested,' and then give an electrical shock to the sender to remind him or her to stop send that kind of message.

  Scott Adams

  Giving, Mail, Messages

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