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Hope is not a prediction of the future, it's a declaration of what is possible.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
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We must prove our predictions about the future with action.
George Jackson
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As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction
Dan Simmons
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Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.
Paul Wellstone
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My approach works not by making valid predictions but by allowing me to correct false ones.
George Soros
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That's not a prediction, that's a spoiler.
Paul Heyman
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An experiment disproving a prediction is discovery.
Enrico Fermi
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It is quite clear to me that the Tory Party will get rid of Mrs Thatcher in about 3 years time.
Harold Wilson
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When you have two competing theories that make exactly the same predictions, the simpler one is the better.
William of Ockham
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While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility.
Lee De Forest
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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
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A plan is an example of what could happen, not a prediction of what will happen.
Kent Beck
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My biggest prediction for the future is that people are going to start looking after individual investors.
John C. Bogle
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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
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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
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Berkshireis in the business of making easy predictions If a deal looks too hard, the partners simply shelve it.
Charlie Munger
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We're the tortoise that has outrun the hare because it chose the easy predictions.
Charlie Munger
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The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action.
W. Edwards Deming
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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
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All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong.
Stewart Brand
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Global warming isn't a prediction. It is happening.
James Hansen
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The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.
Milton Friedman
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...there is no substantive basis for predictions of sizeable global warming due to observed increases in minor greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane and chlorofluorocarbons.
Richard Lindzen
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Prediction is very hard, particularly when it's about the future.
Yogi Berra
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I never make a prediction that can be proved wrong within 24 hours.
Louis Rukeyser
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Never make bad predictions, especially about the futture.
Casey Stengel
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One very important aspect of string theory is definitely testable. That was the prediction of supersymmetry, which emerged from string theory in the early '70s.
Edward Witten
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Every lawyer of experience comes to know (more or less unconsciously) that in the great majority of cases, the precedents are none too good as bases of prediction. Somehow or other, there are plenty of precedents to go around.
Jerome Frank
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The aeroplane is tragically unsuited for ocean service.
Hugo Eckener
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Making predictions is tough. Especially for the future.
Yogi Berra
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A prediction about the direction of the stock market tells you nothing about where stocks are headed, but a whole lot about the person doing the predicting.
Warren Buffett
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To squander a fortune in public money, billions and billions, stubbornly carrying on with a Concorde we can only sell to ourselves.
Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber
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You can't make money with a consensus accurate prediction.
Bill Gurley
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Utopianism substitutes glorious predictions and unachievable promises for knowledge, science, and reason, while laying claim to them all.
Mark Levin
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The only thing that we know about financial predictions of start-ups is that 100 percent of them are wrong
Brad Feld
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The one prediction that never comes true is, 'You'll thank me for telling you this.
Judith Martin
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Almost all of the many predictions now being made about 1996 hinge on the internet's continuing exponential growth. But I predict the internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse.
Robert Metcalfe
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The problem is not one of prediction. It is one of imagination.
Gary Hamel
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With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured.
Abraham Lincoln
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Prediction is difficult, especially the future.
Niels Bohr
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The thing that people associate with expertise, authoritativeness, kind of with a capital 'A,' don't correlate very well with who's actually good at making predictions.
Nate Silver
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I don't read, much less follow, the valuations or predictions. I study the numbers.
John Neff
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I have discovered that a screw-shaped device such as this, if it is well made from starched linen, will rise in the air if turned quickly.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Because of recent improvements in the accuracy of theoretical predictions based on large scale ab initio quantum mechanical calculations, meaningful comparisons between theoretical and experimental findings have become possible.
Yuan T. Lee
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We need to stop, and admit it: we have a prediction problem. We love to predict things—and we aren’t very good at it.
Nate Silver