Quotes of: Forecasting Keyword

The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.

Edgar Fiedler

I'm not an economist and we all know economists were created to make weather forecasters look good.

Rupert Murdoch

And this is one way to do technology forecasting; get a sense of where technology is, and then anticipate the next upturn.

Chris Anderson

You don't want to influence the same system you are trying to forecast.

Nate Silver

As a species, I think we have no choice but to try and forecast pandemics.

Nathan Wolfe

Never forget this simple truism: Forecasting is marketing, plain and simple.

Barry Ritholtz

The rise in world oil prices has been larger than anyone forecast.

George Osborne

Entrepreneurs can't forecast accurately, because they are trying something fundamentally new. So they will often be laughably behind plan - and on the brink of success.

Eric Ries

We really can't forecast all that well, and yet we pretend that we can, but we really can't.

Alan Greenspan

the forecast for tonight is alcohol, low standards, and poor decisions.

Love's Paradox

If you have reason to think that yesterday's forecast went wrong, there is no glory in sticking to it.

Nate Silver

The future will be less predictable, forecast rises will shrink, company lifetimes will shrink, new entrants will proliferate and it's going to just get more unpredictable.

Steve Jurvetson

The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The success that Pantera had, I could have never, ever forecasted or predicted, and I always felt a responsibility to try to pay even a bit of it forward.

Phil Anselmo

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

Winston S. Churchill

In college, I was a weather anchor for the local news. I would 'borrow' my forecast from The Weather Channel.

Emily Procter

The global financial crisis - missed by most analysts - shows that most forecasters are poor at pricing in economic/financial risks, let alone geopolitical ones.

Nouriel Roubini

Wisdom of the Ages "Assault and Battery" Weather forecast for the St. Louis Rams next Sunday in Seattle.

Matthew D. Heines

Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.

Edmund Hillary

The rule on staying alive as a forecaster is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once.

Jane Bryant Quinn

Intelligence Forecast of the Week: Quantum physicists will discover that the hokey pokey is actually more than what it’s all about.

John Alejandro King