Predictions Quotes (125 Quotes)


    He kept apologizing, ... I said, 'Hey, I love that you're a villain, keep doing it.' Deron said one time, 'That's their job, to make predictions. That's what they do.' But at the same time deep down, it gets the juices flowing a little bit. . . . We need a little adrenaline tomorrow there's no doubt about it. If we don't have an edge, I don't know if we can win the game.


    What we have here is a prediction that the cycle is going to be very active, and what we need and what we're of course working on is to be able to predict individual storms with a couple days or hours in advance so the grids can take the action.




    While the predictions are all in fun, there is extremely sophisticated math behind them. Of course, we wouldn't advise any studio execs to make decisions based only on our predictions. If a studio does buy one of the films we've predicted to be a hit, our engineers have told me they'd be happy to attend any acquisition parties to provide the irrefutable statistical data to backup the studio's decision.

    It's very difficult to try to make a stock market forecast based on an interest rate outlook because things change. We don't think you gain a whole lot of value by trying to make those type of predictions. Take a step back, get rid of a lot of noise, and focus on good businesses, good industries and not pay too much, you sleep a whole lot better and you've got a much greater probability of success.

    I had no idea this was going to be an accurate prediction, but amazingly enough instead of 10 years doubling, we got nine over the 10 years, but still followed pretty well along the curve,

    The idea of the Y's extinction was so delicious from the perspective of gender politics, ... But many of my colleagues became confused with this blending of gender politics with scientific predictions.


    Colleges all over the country are interested in 'Tiny,' ... Some of the best schools in country have been calling me already. My prediction is that even though she hasn't won an age-group national title, by the time she gets off to college she will be one of the top divers at NCAA level.


    I understand that this prediction may have been disappointing to some of you, but let me assure you that my confidence in the overall prospects of Nokia remain unchanged,



    There is some evidence from what we have found in initial sweeps that catastrophic death may not have occurred. The numbers so far are relatively minor compared to the dire predictions.






    I think we're all going to be stunned by what's going to be approved over our objections. That's my prediction. It's an outstanding, egregious amount of money that is going to be approved by the court, probably on Wednesday.


    Senator, my answer is that the independence and integrity of the Supreme Court requires that nominees before this committee for a position on that court not forecast, give predictions, give hints, about how they might rule in cases that might come before the Supreme Court,


    She's not one of those people who shows up at investment conferences or dazzles the world with (analyst) predictions. She's not much of a public figure, but her record is so great that nobody who is seriously considering investing internationally ignores her.


    And it's interesting, when you look at the predictions made during the peak of the boom in the 1990s, about e-commerce, or internet traffic, or broadband adoption, or internet advertising, they were all right - they were just wrong in time.




    I have never been a dove because I'm some kind of woolly-eyed liberal. I have been a dove from the very early period, because I recognized that the Palestinians weren't going to go away, and they weren't going to remain passive. And all of these predictions were correct. And we'd better now act on them and make peace.

    While I remain troubled by the Corps' inability to fully justify the Model they used for their commercial traffic predictions, America clearly has an aging lock and dam infrastructure on the Mississippi.


    If you leave it until the end of the rainy season, it is pretty much too late because the malaria kicks in very soon afterwards. We're talking about pushing the prediction horizon back several months, which really does give a lot more lead time.


    You look at the Abby Joseph Cohen stuff and you wonder why Goldman doesn't just stop it already. Guys, it's been three years of bad predictions. You're being ridiculed.

    I called the folks on Sunday when there was talk the storm would be a big one. I wondered about boarding up my house. They said the storms aren't much when they get to us, and the prediction was this one would turn east once it hit land.

    I think the only way to characterize that prediction, as we stand today, is inaccurate. Spam is still congesting the Internet, and it's obviously a very visible problem in most consumer mailboxes.


    I'd actually be surprised if this ever reaches the Supreme Court. My prediction is the lower courts will find this an easy case and strike it down. The Supreme Court could choose to hear the case or not, and I don't think it's going to.

    As a result, places in the Southeast, like Atlanta, are having quite a wet time of it, and we are getting nothing. There's not much in the way of relief for the next 10 days, and January through March show below normal predictions.

    Heat is anybody's guess, ... We don't know what it will be tomorrow. But we will be talking to Open Flow (the district's natural gas supplier) to try to get a prediction.

    Predictions of the future are never anything but projections of present automatic processes and procedures, that is, of occurrences that are likely to come to pass if men do not act and if nothing unexpected happens every action, for better or worse, and every accident necessarily destroys the whole pattern in whose frame the prediction moves and where it finds its evidence.

    We are a football team, and we will play as a football team this year. I'm not going to make any predictions, but we go into the season this year feeling like we can play with anybody on our schedule and have a chance to win.




    We have enough to worry about in our own camp let alone worrying about what everybody else says in other camps. I take that as an expression of optimism rather than as a prediction.




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