Quotes of: Forecasts Keyword

If you have to forecast, forecast often.

Edgar Fiedler

I never understand why 'economist makes forecast' is ever a headline. Whether the economist in question is from the International Monetary Fund, a City forecasting group or the Treasury - a forecast is still not news.

Tim Harford

Computer modelling for weather forecasting, and indeed for climate forecasting, has reached its limits.

Piers Corbyn

Force without forecast is to little avail.

Traditional

Overcast does not always forecast rain neither does difficulty always forecast failure.

Kevin A. McKoy

Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.

Warren Buffett

A forecasting game is a kind of simulation, a kind of scenario, a kind of teleconference, a kind of artifact from the future - and more - that enlists the participants as 'first-person forecasters.'

Howard Rheingold

The population forecast for the United States in 1970 is 170 million. The population forecast for Russia alone in 1970 is 251 million. The implications are clear.

Emanuel Celler

Using a forecasting company is like going to a fortune-teller. If you believe the company and the color does not sell, who do you blame? The forecasters? No, you blame yourself.

Tadashi Shoji

Economists have allowed themselves to walk into a trap where we say we can forecast, but no serious economist thinks we can. You don't expect dentists to be able to forecast how many teeth you'll have when you're 80. You expect them to give good advi...

Tim Harford

People don't realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of what causes what, but that's as far as we go. And I've had a very successful career as a forecaster, starting in 1948 forward. The number of mistakes I h...

Alan Greenspan

Anger does not make history. Power does. And power may be supplemented by anger, but it derives from more fundamental realities; geography, demographics, technology, and culture.

The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century

Weather forecast for tonight: dark.

George Carlin

The computer focuses ruthlessly on things that can be represented in numbers. In so doing, it seduces people into thinking that other aspects of knowledge are either unreal or unimportant. The computer treats reason as an instrument for achieving thi...

The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century

No one can forecast the economy with certainty.

Jamie Dimon

Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species; we are much better with tools and narrative storytelling.

Barry Ritholtz

Despite the forecast, live like it's spring.

Lilly Pulitzer

My one remaining professional ambition is to read the shipping forecast. I live in hope.

Samuel West

The key to making a good forecast is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information.

Nate Silver

Future forecasting is all about testing strategies - it's like a wind tunnel.

Jamais Cascio

The most reliable way to forecast the future is to try to understand the present.

John Naisbitt