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• I hate to make predictions, but I think the economy is going to be permanently changed for the worse. I think our foreign policy is going to lead to changes that will be definitely for the worse, particularly if we drift into a nuclear Iran, which I gather that's what the administration is doing.

  Thomas Sowell

  Hate, Thinking, Nuclear Iran

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• One may say that predictions are dangerous particularly for the future. If the danger involved in a prediction is not incurred, no consequence follows and the uncertainty principle is not violated.

  Edward Teller

  Future, Science, Uncertainty Principle

  Edward Teller, Wendy Teller, Wilson Talley (2013). “Conversations on the Dark Secrets of Physics”, p.235, Basic Books

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• The important prediction is not the automobile, but the parking problem; not radio, but the soap opera; not the income tax, but the expense account; not the Bomb, but the nuclear stalemate

  Isaac Asimov

  Important, Income, Nuclear

  Isaac Asimov (1972). “From earth to heaven”

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• I've had only one idea in my life - a true idee fixe. To put it as bluntly as possible - the idea of having my own way. 'Control!' expresses it. The control of human behavior. In my early experimental days it was a frenzied, selfish desire to dominate. I remember the rage I used to feel when a prediction went awry. I could have shouted at the subjects of my experiments, 'Behave, damn you! Behave as you ought!

  B. F. Skinner

  Selfish, Damn You, Ideas

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• I have learned not to do predictions. It's not helpful, psychologically. I don't sit and fret about things.

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  Helpful, I Have Learned

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• If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

  M. H. Abrams

  Views, Decades, One Thing

  "Honored literary scholar M.H. Abrams continues his labors (of love)". Interview with Linda Grace-Kobas, news.cornell.edu. June 11, 1999.

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• That's not a prediction, that's a spoiler.

  Paul Heyman

  Wwe, Spoilers

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• I first came into the labor force in 1941 when the minimum wage was 40 cents an hour, and that was my first job. And each time that we've tried to boost the lower level of salary for the most underpaid workers, there have been predictions of catastrophe. But each time, in [m]y opinion, the change has helped our Nation and its economic strength.

  Jimmy Carter

  Jobs, Labor Force, Salary

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• You can't make money with a consensus accurate prediction.

  Bill Gurley

  Making Money, Accurate, Consensus

  "Gurley and Om" by Fred Wilson, www.businessinsider.com. December 13, 2012.

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• Science is about predictions based on predictable fact. Life is about surprises based on the unpredictable reality.

  Ori Hofmekler

  Reality, Facts, Life Is

  Ori Hofmekler (2010). “Maximum Muscle, Minimum Fat: The Secret Science Behind Physical Transformation”, p.14, North Atlantic Books

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• There have been predictions that the world will come to an end on 21.12.12. But I look around me and I see so much scope for hope.

  A. R. Rahman

  Looks, World, Scope

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• Nobody believes a weather prediction twelve hours ahead. Now we're being asked to believe a prediction that goes out 100 years into the future? And make financial investments based on that prediction? Has everybody lost their minds?

  Michael Crichton

  Believe, Years, Weather

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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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• A rational prediction has an explanation based on theory.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Management, Theory, Rational

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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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• 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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• 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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• Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling creativity of the kind practiced by great artists, directors, writers, musicians, actors, who know how to touch a chord in humans everywhere.

  Maurice Saatchi

  Creativity, Artist, Musician

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• I think science fiction is very bad at prediction.

  China Mieville

  Thinking, Fiction, Science Fiction

  "China Mieville: 'My job is not to try to give readers what they want but to try to make readers want what I give' - interview". Interview with SkellieScar, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2012.

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• There has been a good deal of comment — some of it quite outlandish — about what our postwar requirements might be in Iraq. Some of the higher end predictions we have been hearing recently, such as the notion that it will take several hundred thousand U.S. troops to provide stability in post- Iraq, are wildly off the mark. It is hard to conceive that it would take more forces to provide stability in post-Saddam Iraq than it would take to conduct the war itself and to secure the surrender of Saddam's security forces and his army — hard to imagine.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  War, Army, Iraq

  House Budget Committee testimony on Iraq, February 27, 2003.

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• Control of space means control of the world.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Future, Mean, Space

  Lyndon B. Johnson (1964). “A Time for Action”

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• When I think of the flag.... I see alternate strips of parchment upon which are written the rights of liberty and justice, and stripes of blood to vindicate those rights, and then, in the corner, a prediction of the blue serene into which every nation may swim which stands for these great things.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Thinking, Rights, Blue

  Woodrow Wilson, Ray Stannard Baker, Howard Seavoy Leach (1926). “The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson: College and state; educational literary and political papers (1875-1913)”

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• I am cocky in prediction, I am confident in preparation but I am always humble in victory or defeat.

  Conor McGregor

  Humble, Cocky, Ufc

  YouTube Chanel "MMAWeekly.com"/ "The Conor McGregor Show (UFC 178 Post Press)", www.youtube.com. September 28, 2014.

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• Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cortex, and the foundation of intelligence.

  Jeff Hawkins

  Brain, Foundation, Doe

  Jeff Hawkins, Sandra Blakeslee (2007). “On Intelligence”, p.89, Macmillan

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