In describing today's accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs. Popular forecasters present lists of unrelated trends, without any model to show us their interconnections or the forces likely to reverse them. As a result, change itself comes to be seen as anarchic, even lunatic.
Quotes about forecasters (15 Quotes)
We are still on standby, ... With the storm this close off the coast, we have no choice. Forecasters are predicting it will head off to the northeast, but if it turns our way we will have very little time to notify residents.
We've had a double whammy We've been the victims of a surprise terrorist attack and most forecasters believe our economy is heading for recession,
This is the nailbiting time for forecasters, ... We're waiting for Bertha to make her turn to the northeast but there's some uncertainty about when it will happen.
Looking at a number of forecasters out there in the gas marketing community, the price of gas is expected to drop...to about 4.80 by August and then recover to about the 8 area by January.
We were criticized by the seasonal forecasters for not including the other environmental factors, like wind shear, in our analysis. We didn't do so because on time scales longer than 2-3 years, these do not seem to matter very much. This paper more or less proves this point.
It will no doubt buoy forecasters who see the recent slowdown in the economy as a temporary affair -- which includes the Fed,
The strength of the economy since the beginning of the year has been an embarrassment to forecasters. There is much more momentum than most people recognized.
To be included among the top economic forecasters in the nation is quite an honor.
That really is the trillion-dollar question. The markets are pricing in extremely negative news and the forecasters are talking about not-so-bad but not-as-positive news. I suppose the truth lies somewhere in between.
The collective denial on the euro zone economic recovery is belatedly challenged as markets and forecasters finally wake up to reality.
The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
GOES satellites help our forecasters to see both the big picture and small-scale storm features,
My favorite line is that economists were created to make weather forecasters look good, ... A good dose of humility is always required.
We now face a day where the temperature will not get past the freezing mark and a forecast for additional freezing rain throughout the day. Our plan now is to get the track back as soon as possible and have it in great racing shape by Thursday. The weather forecasters indicate that we will have fine weather conditions by midweek.