Predictions Quotes

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

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Business, Future

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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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• A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make.

  Debbi Fields

  Ideas, America, Likes

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• Having established that good ideas do indeed come in from the cold, start on the fringes and become mainstream, can we make any predictions about what the next move will be?

  Nigel Farage

  Moving, Ideas, Next Move

  "Fruitcakes can be good for you" by Nigel Farage, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2009.

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• I'm going to make a prediction - it could go either way.

  Ron Atkinson

  Funny, Football, Way

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• A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with all its movements.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Men, Law, Bird

  The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (translation by Edward MacCurdy)

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• The aeroplane will never fly.

  Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane

  Space, Follow Your Dreams, Aeroplanes

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• Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia.

  Dionysius Lardner

  Follow Your Dreams, Aviation, Speed

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• Railroad carriages are pulled at the enormous speed of fifteen miles per hour by engines which, in addition to endangering life and limb of passengers, roar and snort their way through the countryside, setting fire to the crops, scaring the livestock, and frightening women and children. The Almighty certainly never intended that people should travel at such break-neck speed.

  Martin Van Buren

  Children, Fire, People

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• Within the next few decades, autos will have folding wings that can be spread when on a straight stretch of road so that the machine can take to the air.

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Air, Wings, Next

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• If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Inspirational, Business, Science

  In New Yorker 9 Aug. 1969

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• It is apparent to me that the possibilities of the aeroplane, which two or three years ago were thought to hold the solution to the [flying machine] problem, have been exhausted, and that we must turn elsewhere.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Years, Two, Flying

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• Nobody wants a prediction that the future will be more or less like the present, even if that is, statistically speaking, an excellent prediction.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Want, Excellent, Ifs

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• A prediction is a prediction because it's predictable.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Predictable

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• Perhaps the safest prediction we can make about the future is that it will surprise us.

  George Leonard

  Future, Surprise

  George Leonard (2009). “The Silent Pulse”, p.139, Gibbs Smith

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• 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

  Data, Way, Should

  Walter A. Shewhart (2012). “Statistical Method from the Viewpoint of Quality Control”, p.88, Courier Corporation

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• Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?

  Harry Warner

  Inspirational, Witty, Humorous

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

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• If I am going to trash others for their dumb predictions, I must at least hold myself to the same sort of accountability.

  Barry Ritholtz

  Accountability, Dumb, Trash

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• Prediction, not narration, is the real test of our understanding of the world.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Real, Understanding, World

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility"”, p.133, Random House

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• I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man's future, that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring.

  Julien Benda

  Past, Men, Would Be

  Julien Benda (2011). “The Treason of the Intellectuals”, p.197, Transaction Publishers

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• To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth - all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne. I am bold enough to say that such a man-made voyage will never occur regardless of all future advances.

  Lee De Forest

  Dream, Future, Men

  "De Forest Says Space Travel Is Impossible". "Lewiston Morning Tribune" Newspaper, February 25, 1957.

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• The problem is not one of prediction. It is one of imagination.

  Gary Hamel

  Imagination, Problem

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• One of the predictions that I was the first to make is now materializing, and that prediction was that Obama isn't going away. That Obama is going to hang around Washington and do everything he can to undermine the next president, particularly if and when the next president tries to unravel any of the gigantic web of deceit and debauchery that Obama has implemented as president.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Ifs And, Going Away, Trying

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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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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• We must now allow ourselves to be blinded to long-term developments by the intensity of the short-term difficulties.

  Stafford Cripps

  Long, Development, Intensity

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