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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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• Historical science is not worse, more restricted, or less capable of achieving firm conclusions because experiment, prediction, and subsumption under invariant laws of nature do not represent its usual working methods. The sciences of history use a different mode of explanation, rooted in the comparative and observational richness in our data. We cannot see a past event directly, but science is usually based on inference, not unvarnished observation (you don't see electrons, gravity, or black holes either).

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Past, Law, Data

  "Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History". Book by Stephen Jay Gould, p. 279, 1989.

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• Prophecy and prescience - How can they be put to the test in the face of unanswered questions? Consider: How much is actual prediction and how much is the prophet shaping the future to fit the prophecy? What are the harmonics inherent in the act of prophecy? Does the prophet see the future or does he see a line of weakness, a fault or cleavage that he may shatter with words or decisions as a diamond-cutter shatters his gem with a blow of the knife?

  Frank Herbert

  Blow, Knives, Decision

  "Dune: The Gateway Collection". Book by Frank Herbert, 2012.

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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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• 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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• If there is a lesson in our story it is that the manipulation, according to strictly self-consistent rules, of a set of symbols representing one single aspect of the phenomena may produce correct, verifiable predictions, and yet completely ignore all other aspects whose ensemble constitutes reality.

  Arthur Koestler

  Reality, Self, May

  "The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe". Book by Arthur Koestler, 1959.

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• Never believe a prediction that does not empower you.

  Sean Stephenson

  Believe, Empowering, Doe

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• Predictions are uttered by prophets (free of charge); by clairvoyants (who usually charge a fee, and are therefore more honored in their day than prophets); and by futurologists (salaried). Prediction is the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futurologists. It is not the business of novelists. A novelist's business is lying.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Lying, Novelists, Prophet

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.8, Penguin

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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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• You don't need to predict the future. Just choose a future -- a good future, a useful future -- and make the kind of prediction that will alter human emotions and reactions in such a way that the future you predicted will be brought about. Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.

  Isaac Asimov

  Future, Needs, Way

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• Prediction can never be absolutely valid and therefore science can never prove some generalization or even test a single descriptive statement and in that way arrive at final truth.

  Gregory Bateson

  Finals, Tests, Way

  "Mind and Nature - a Necessary Unity". Book by Gregory Bateson, new edition, 1988.

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• The usefulness of the models in constructing a testable theory of the process is severely limited by the quickly increasing number of parameters which must be estimated in order to compare the predictions of the models with empirical results.

  Anatol Rapoport

  Numbers, Order, Theory

  Anatol Rapoport, Albert M. Chammah (1965). “Prisoner's Dilemma: A Study in Conflict and Cooperation”, p.150, University of Michigan Press

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• Science is progressing at such a rapid rate that when you make a prediction and think you are ahead of your time by 100 years you may be ahead of your time by 10 at most.

  Leo Szilard

  Thinking, Years, Progress

  "Some Szilardisms on War, Fame, Peace". Life magazine, Vol. 51, No. 9, p. 79, September 01, 1961.

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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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• How many times has the end of the world been predicted? The same number of times the prediction has proved false.

  Hugh Downs

  Numbers, World, Ends

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• My biggest prediction for the future is that people are going to start looking after individual investors.

  John C. Bogle

  People, Individual, Investors

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• Predictions can sound really good if you're good with words and can express them eloquently and give people ideas and inspiration in their head. But I'm not really good at that, so I don't want to.

  Steve Wozniak

  Inspiration, Ideas, People

  "A Chat with Computing Pioneer Steve Wozniak". "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. September 29, 2006.

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• Im generally considered a conservative in my predictions for disease.

  Anthony S. Fauci

  Disease, Conservative

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• Not too long ago, my opponent made a prediction. He said I would probably win Pennsylvania, he would win North Carolina, and Indiana would be the tiebreaker. Well, tonight we've come from behind, we've broken the tie, and, thanks to you, it's full speed on to the White House.

  Hillary Clinton

  Winning, Long Ago, White

  "Obama Extends Lead; Full Speed Ahead for Hillary Clinton: She's Staying in Until the End". "American Morning", www.cnn.com. May 7, 2008.

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• ...paranormal phenomena such as apports, prediction, telepathy, dowsing and the like can be explained by an extended physics as potentially real effects.

  Ron Pearson

  Real, Physics, Paranormal

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• If to enjoy even an enjoyable present we must have the assurance of a happy future, we are “crying for the moon.” We have no such assurance. The best predictions are still matters of probability rather than certainty, and to the best of our knowledge every one of us is going to suffer and die. If, then, we cannot live happily without an assured future, we are certainly not adapted to living in a finite world where, despite the best plans, accidents will happen, and where death comes at the end.

  Alan Watts

  Moon, Suffering, World

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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• Jeff Selingo is one of the most respected observers of American higher education...Not all will agree with his observations, conclusions, predictions and recommendations, but all will gain from this thoughtful, well-written, provocative volume. I highly recommend it.

  David J. Skorton

  Thoughtful, Gains, Provocative

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