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• My mother is not a model. She is not perfect. That awareness is part of learning to love someone. Predicting the actions of someone is an act of love. We persist, even when we get it wrong. That's the beauty of love.

  Daniel Tammet

  Mother, Perfect, Action

  "Daniel Tammet: 'Maths is as rich, inspiring and human as literature'". Interview with Adam Feinstein, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2012.

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• The great temptation of Big Data is that we can stop worrying about comprehension and focus on preventive action instead. Instead of wasting precious public resources on understanding the 'why' - i.e., exploring the reasons as to why terrorists become terrorists - one can focus on predicting the 'when' so that a timely intervention could be made.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Data, Worry, Focus

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• 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

  Interesting, Car, Waiting

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

  J. K. Rowling

  Life, Potters, Our Actions

  "Harry Potter And The Prisoner of Azkaban". Book by J. K. Rowling, July 8, 1999.

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• We're better at predicting events at the edge of the galaxy or inside the nucleus of an atom than whether it'll rain on auntie's garden party three Sundays from now.

  Tom Stoppard

  Party, Rain, Sunday

  1993 Arcadia.

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

  J. Robbins

  People, Speak, Endure

  "Burning Airlines". Interview with Camilo Arturo Leslie, pitchfork.com. February 1, 2001.

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• I come back to the same thing: We've got the greatest pipeline in the company's history in the next 12 months, and we've had the most amazing financial results possible over the last five years, and we're predicting being back at double-digit revenue growth in fiscal year '06.

  Steve Ballmer

  Years, Growth, Pipeline

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• One of the persistent ironies of reform is the impossibility of predicting the full consequences of change.

  Diane Ravitch

  Change, Reform, Irony

  Diane Ravitch (1974). “The great school wars, New York City, 1805-1973: a history of the public schools as battlefield of social change”

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• Theater is a very changeable art. It responds to the moment in history the way the newspaper does, and there's no predicting what to come up with next.

  Arthur Miller

  Art, Next, Doe

  Interview with William R. Ferris, www.neh.gov. March/April 2001.

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• A man would still do something out of sheer perversity - he would create destruction and chaos - just to gain his point...and if all this could in turn be analyzed and prevented by predicting that it would occur, then man would deliberately go mad to prove his point.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Mad, Humanity

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• Within 2 years Im predicting...that youre going to see a suitcase nuke in this country. Youre probably going to see a release in a few years of something communicable. & I am predicting that you will see a lot of conventional bombings...in the next year or so.

  Alex Jones

  Country, Years, Next Year

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• Every cancer looks different. Every cancer has similarities to other cancers. And were trying to milk those differences and similarities to do a better job of predicting how things are going to work out and making new drugs.

  Harold E. Varmus

  Jobs, Cancer, Differences

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• Science is a little bit more than a wonderful way of modelling and predicting; its a wonderful technical abstraction. I think science is a really wonderful technical abstraction.

  Bernard Beckett

  Thinking, Littles, Way

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• Nothing will ever replace the experience of wandering haphazardly through a great bookstore, no matter how many algorithms are developed to find matches for our tastes. That's because not only is there no accounting for taste, there is no predicting it either.

  Dominique Browning

  Bookstores, Algorithms, Matter

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• You should expect little or nothing from Wall Street stock pickers who hope to be more accurate than the market in predicting the future of prices. And you should not expect much from pundits making long-term forecasts.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Wall, Long, Investing

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• I have become increasingly convinced that the past records of mutual fund managers are essentially worthless in predicting future success. The few examples of consistently superior performance occur no more frequently than can be expected by chance.

  Burton Malkiel

  Past, Example, Investing

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• For me there's insecurity when you're releasing an album because you spend all of this time working on that one thing and then once it's done, it's done. After you put it out there to the public you never know which songs are going to work or even if the album is going to work as a whole so there is a little bit of nervousness around predicting what the numbers will be and if it's going to be well-received.

  John Legend

  Song, Numbers, Insecurity

  A Drink With Interview, adrinkwith.com. April 14, 2015.

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• 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

  Years, People, Complaining

  "Why Paul Krugman thinks inflation fears are baloney". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. November 3, 2014.

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• It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment. What creates despair is the imagination, which pretends there is a future, and insists on predicting millions of moments, thousands of days, and so drains you that you cannot live the moment at hand.

  Andre Dubus

  Hands, Imagination, Live In The Moment

  Andre Dubus (2010). “The Times Are Never So Bad: A Novella and Eight Short Stories”, p.122, Open Road Media

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• 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

  Strong, People, Feelings

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• I switched to my new trainer Abel Sanchez to add versatility to my game. I'm coming to fight a serious fight. If I knock him out, it will just put another feather in my cap. I'm predicting a win, but I never look for the knockout because that's not my game plan. If my punches result in a knockout, so be it.

  Tavoris Cloud

  Fighting, Winning, Games

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• That's the thing about golf. In a team sport, when a team's on a roll, you have a little bit more data and comfort in predicting whether the roll's gonna continue, whether the team is playing well and who the opponent is. But the golf course is the opponent. It changes every round in terms of wind and weather and so forth. And your game is never the same two days in a row. It's almost impossible to handicap and predict.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Sports, Team, Golf

  Source: origin-www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Two thirds of federal disaster aid is weather related,and though we cannot prevent bad weather, we are getting better at predicting it. The Commerce Department's NDRI will help save lives and protect property. We will be working closely with FEMA, the Interior Department and other federal agencies, with state and local governments and with our nation's businesses.

  William M. Daley

  Weather, Two, Agency

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• The energy of college football rivals that of a live performance for me. I am an extremely analytical guy and predicting these games is right up my alley, especially with a little luck thrown in. It is even more fun when I am winning and I have to say, I have fared quite well in my predictions.

  Rodney Atkins

  Football, Fun, Winning

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• People are disposed to mistake predicting troubles for causing troubles and even for desiring troubles.

  Enoch Powell

  Mistake, People, Trouble

  John Enoch Powell, Rex Collings (1992). “Reflections”

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