Predictions Quotes - Page 18

• Well I'm not making predictions. But the point I can - what I can say to you to contribute to your thinking is as somebody who has been out knocking on doors, doing the street corners, speaking to constituents right across the country is that the Government - that people understand that the Government's message of jobs and growth is addressing their concerns and they have a level of - a high level of confidence that Malcolm Turnbull and Scott Morrison are the people who can deliver.

  George Brandis

  Country, Jobs, Thinking

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• In the late 1960s, there were alarming predictions that worldwide famine was around the corner. I wondered if humans had already lost the race, overrun the Earth's capacity. I let one question lead to the next, and unearthed information that would forever change my life: Not only is there enough food in the world to feed every man, woman, and child on Earth, there is enough to make us all chubby.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Children, Men, Race

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• It has been known for some time that a major nuclear war might lead to nuclear winter that would destroy the attacker as well as the target. And threats are now mounting, particularly at the Russian border, confirming the prediction of George Kennan and other prominent figures that NATO expansion, particularly the way it was undertaken, would prove to be a "tragic mistake," a "policy error of historic proportions."

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Mistake, Winter

  "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, www.truth-out.org. September 17, 2016.

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• I've been doing lot of work, and hopefully will bring it to fruition in a way people can see it, really understanding - this is going to sound funny, but what does government really do, how is it really funded, and what measures exist to evaluate how it does at what it does? No forecast, no policy, no prediction, just a realistic perspective on what is. Call it like a "10k for government" we've been working on with a website, with additional data.

  Steve Ballmer

  Government, Data, People

  "Steve Ballmer talks about the current state of Microsoft, his Twitter investment, and how sports tech can help the Clippers". Interview with Matt Rosoff, www.businessinsider.com. February 6, 2016.

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• I am quite pessimistic about ever achieving interstellar travel.

  Theodore von Karman

  Future, Pessimistic, Achieve

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• Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.

  Ferdinand Foch

  Military, Silly, Airplane

  "Time : A Traveler's Guide". Book by Clifford A. Pickover, p. 249, 1998.

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• For me to sit down here, even as a Nobel Laureate and make a prediction about which science I think that will be a mistake.

  Ahmed H. Zewail

  Mistake, Thinking, Nobel

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• My prediction is that in the same way that Google is an intent revealing service that can be monetized that way, I would think that if I were at Twitter, I would focus on the search aspect of Twitter, because people are revealing intents when they do a search.

  Jason Kilar

  Thinking, People, Focus

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• You look at these past predictions like there's only a market in the world for five computers [as allegedly said by IBM founder Thomas Watson] and you realize it's not a good idea to predict too far into the future.

  Geoffrey Hinton

  Past, Ideas, Looks

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The fact that these scientific theories have a fine track record of successful prediction and explanation speaks for itself. (Which is not to say that I don't directly discuss the work of those philosophers who would disagree.) But even if we grant this, many will argue that scientific knowledge in humans, and, indeed, reflective knowledge in general, is quite different in kind from the knowledge we see in other animals.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Successful, Animal, Track

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The fact that we have been able to develop a successful science, which issues in ever more accurate predictions and broader explanations, is the real ground for confidence that we are in a position to gain knowledge of the world around us. At the same time, one might ask how it is that the cognitive equipment we have came about, and here, no doubt, our evolutionary origins are relevant.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Real, Successful, Issues

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I'd be doing Oscar predictions months ahead of time, and not only for the Oscars, for the Grammys. This is just what excited me as a kid.

  Billy Eichner

  Kids, Months, Oscars

  Source: www.npr.org

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• [Mikhail Bakunin] expectations were generally confirmed, including his prediction that some would seek to gain state power on the backs of popular revolution, then constructing a "Red bureaucracy" that would be one of the worst tyrannies in history, while others would recognize that power lies elsewhere and would serve as its apologists, becoming mystifies, "disablers," and managers while demanding the right to function in "technocratic isolation," in World Bank lingo.

  Noam Chomsky

  Lying, Expectations, World

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• Given their unusual privilege, Western intellectuals can realistically accomplish a great deal. The limits are imposed by will more than objective circumstances. And about human will predictions are without value.

  Noam Chomsky

  Limits, Privilege, Unusual

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• In my opinion, poets talk through the symptoms of disease. These symptoms of disease are predictions, screams, and songs.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Song, Disease, Opinion

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Fellow countrymen: At this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first...The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Office, Presidential, Progress

  Second Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1865

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• Despite all the dire predictions made in 2001, the Afghans have given the international community, its aid workers and soldiers a large window of opportunity to repair the damage done by 25 years of war. That window, which has stayed open for nearly five years, with amazing good will from the Afghans, is threatening to close unless the world wakes up and deals with the crisis.

  Ahmed Rashid

  War, Opportunity, Years

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• I don't give a score prediction, but I am a defensive guy, so I'll definitely be looking forward to a defensive game.

  J. J. Watt

  Games, Giving, Guy

  "ESQ&A: J.J. Watt (And His New Haircut)". Interview with Nic Screws, www.esquire.com. February 1, 2013.

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• I am pretty specialized in people who pass over. Predictions are not my thing. Every medium is a psychic and every psychic is a medium. I do that occasionally but my specialty is spiritual pasts.

  James Van Praagh

  Spiritual, Past, Psychics

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• They're not predicting global warming based on what's happened in the past; they're basing it on what their computer predictions say, and nothing more.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Past, Global Warming, Computer

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The only basis for even talking about global warming is the predictions spewed out by computer models. The only quote/unquote "evidence" of global warming is what models are predicting the climate and the weather will be in the next 50 to 100 years. Now, what those models spit out is only as good as the data that's put in, and it's an absolute joke. In terms of science, it's a total joke. There is no warming, global or otherwise!

  Rush Limbaugh

  Talking, Years, Data

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Now companies tend to mine gigantic databases for insights into what might happen six months from now. That might always be valuable, but there's a different kind of value - and a competitive edge - in processing ongoing streams of data through a software model that can quickly and constantly make predictions about, say, whether a certain customer is going to defect, or an aircraft is going to run into trouble.

  Kevin Maney

  Running, Data, Six Months

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Wayne Gretzky's talent doesn't come from studying everything he's experienced in hockey and making long-term game plans. It comes from constantly taking in all the data that's happening in the moment on the ice, and instantly generating constant predictions based on super-efficient mental models he's built in his head. Technology has to work more like Gretzky.

  Kevin Maney

  Hockey, Technology, Ice

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• How the media covers [Donald] Trump-Hillary [Clinton]? Who knows yet how it's gonna manifest itself, but I guarantee you a lot of people are thinking - and I made the prediction. Well, it's not a prediction, but I said, folks, it's entirely possible that the media will continue to be sort of hands off on [Donald] Trump.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Media, Hands

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Evolutionary theory tends to explain quite well in retrospect how various species emerged. It's not very good on prediction. Nevertheless, one cannot say that there isn't a lot of knowledge that's been obtained in this field. In the same way, with these complex physical phenomena between solid state physics, you can say a lot of things without necessarily knowing the next step.

  Kenneth Arrow

  Knowing, Retrospect, Way

  Source: www.minneapolisfed.org

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