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• Business success is less a function of grandiose predictions than it is a result of being able to respond rapidly to real changes as they occur.

  Jack Welch

  Real, Business Success, Able

  "Jack: Straight from the Gut". Book by Jack Welch and John A. Byrne (Chapter 24), 2001.

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• It may happen that small differences in the initial conditions produce very great ones in the final phenomena. A small error in the former will produce an enormous error in the later. Prediction becomes impossible, and we have the fortuitous phenomena.

  Henri Poincare

  Errors, Differences, Finals

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• As for my prediction that this phone would be a bad idea for Apple to pursue, anything can still happen. Time is a cruel mistress.

  John C. Dvorak

  Iphone, Ideas, Apples

  "Wrong? Dvorak blames his 'getting screwed over' by Apple" by Paul McNamara, www.networkworld.com. June 27, 2012.

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• In reality, no one knows what the market will do; trying to predict it is a waste of time, and investing based upon that prediction is a speculative undertaking.

  Seth Klarman

  Reality, Trying, Investing

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• I'm not trying to frighten you, but only a fool makes predictions based on ignorance; I am not that sort of fool.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Ignorance, Trying, Fool

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “I Will Fear No Evil”, p.136, Penguin

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• I cannot give any assurances. I'm not in that business. I haven't been, and I don't intend to get into it. People who try to make predictions about things or assurances often find they're wrong.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  People, Giving, Trying

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I've learned that the best political reporters never make predictions!

  Jodi Kantor

  Political, I've Learned, Reporters

  "Jodi Kantor: 'Barack Obama wouldn't be president without Michelle'". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2012.

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• There is no greater prediction in the research of our levels of happiness than the breadth and depth of our relationships.

  Michelle Gielan

  Depth, Research, Levels

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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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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• We do have tendency, now in biology especially to make up stories, to make theoretical biology a kind of game, in fact we have game theory in biology which is meant to use the theory of games to make predictions or explain things.

  Richard Lewontin

  Games, Stories, Use

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Weather abroad
  and weather in the heart alike come on
  Regardless of prediction.

  Adrienne Rich

  Heart, Weather

  1951 A Change ofWorld,'StormWarnings'.

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• There are a whole other range of sciences that must deal with the narrative reconstruction of the inordinately complex events of history that can occur but once in their detailed glory. And for those kinds of sciences, be it cosmology, or evolutionary biology, or geology, or palaeontology, the experimental methods, simplification, quantification, prediction and repetition of the experimental sciences don't always work. You have to go with the narrative, the descriptive methods of what? Of historians.

  Richard Lewontin

  Events, Narrative, Kind

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Quantification, experimentation, rigor, repetition, prediction - all of these are part of the experimental sciences. There's an iconography also namely man, and I do mean males in white coats who spin dials and wait for numbers to appear.

  Richard Lewontin

  Mean, Men, White

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• When we hear a prediction of some disaster we need to throw the entire weight of our positive thought in the opposite direction!

  Peace Pilgrim

  Opposites, Needs, Weight

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• You can predict all you want, but everybody knows what predictions get you.

  Hope Solo

  Want, Knows

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• Astrology ... makes vague predictions that can always be adapted after the fact to fit observations, as we'll see. Astrologers don't seek causes at all, for a good reason: There isn't any cause to astrology. If you look for some underlying reason, some connection between the stars and planets and our lives, you won't find any. For astrology to sell, buyers must not seek out the fundamental principles behind it, because if they do they'll see that there is none.

  Phil Plait

  Stars, Astrology, Connections

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• President Bush is now focusing on jobs. I think the one job he's focusing most on is his own. The White House is now backtracking from its prediction that 2.6 million new jobs will be created in the U.S. this year. They say they were off by roughly 2.6 million jobs.

  Jay Leno

  Jobs, Thinking, Years

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• No technique is possible when men are free. Technique requires predictability and, no less, exactness of prediction. It is necessary, then, that technique prevail over the human being.

  Jacques Ellul

  Men, Technique, Exactness

  "The Technological Society". Book by Jacques Ellul, translated by John Wilkinson, p. 138, 1964.

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• This is my prediction for the future: Whatever hasn't happened will happen, and no one will be safe from it.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Modern Life, Safe, Happened

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• To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.

  Nate Silver

  Real, Testing Yourself, Answers

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• Predictions that unit cohesion could not survive honesty about sexual orientation were simply wrong. What does threaten morale arethe prolonged investigations, the questioning of friends and co-workers, the searches of barracks for magazines and letters, the witch hunts.

  Anna Quindlen

  Honesty, Doe, Magazines

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• The paradigm of physics - with its interplay of data, theory and prediction - is the most powerful in science.

  Geoffrey West

  Powerful, Data, Physics

  "The City in Numbers: an Equation That Explains Urban Life". wired.co.uk, March 29, 2011.

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• Prediction from a grown-up: Your future is going to be amazing. You will surprise yourself with what you're capable of and the incredible things you go on to do. Find the people who love and believe in you - there will be lots of them.

  Hillary Clinton

  Believe, People, Goes On

  "Hillary Clinton to gay Humans of New York teen: 'Your future will be amazing'" by Jana Kasperkevic, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2015.

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• most economists, like doctors, are reluctant to make predictions, and those who make them are seldom accurate. The economy, like the human body, is a highly complex system whose workings are not thoroughly understood.

  Alice Rivlin

  Doctors, Body, Economics

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• Berkshire was built on the eternal verities: basic mathematics, basic horse sense, basic fear, and basic diagnosis of human nature to make predictions regarding human behavior. We stuck to the basics with a certain amount of discipline and it has worked out quite well.

  Charlie Munger

  Horse, Discipline, Investing

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