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

  Ron Atkinson

  Funny, Football, Way

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.

  Albert Einstein

  Mean, Nuclear, Investing

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com. 1932.

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• There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable.

  John Langdon-Davies

  Energy, Atoms, Nuclear

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• Television won't last because people will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.

  Darryl F. Zanuck

  Tired, Technology, Night

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

  Gary Hamel

  Imagination, Problem

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• The future is itself a story, and predictions are stories we tell to amaze ourselves, to give hope to the desperate, to jolt the complacent.

  David Remnick

  Giving, Stories, Desperate

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• Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible.

  Simon Newcomb

  Airplane, Space, Machines

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• The game of investing is one of making better predictions about the future than other people. How are you going to do that? One way is to limit your tries to areas of competence. If you try to predict the future of everything, you attempt too much.

  Charlie Munger

  Games, People, Trying

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• A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.

  Wendy Carlos

  Art, Nice, Surprise

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• Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.

  Lord Kelvin

  Silly, Creativity, Science

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