I am incredibly bad at predicting the future; I am only smart enough to observe the present and listen to my intuition about tendencies.
A number of our scientists boast intelligence but lack wisdom. I find those to be the predictable ones.
Many defense experts have predicted that we face no greater threat from a single country than from Iran.
I had no idea 'Big Green Tractor' was going to be as big a hit as it was. You just can't predict those things.
I'm more surprised than anyone that 'Spamalot's done so well. You can never predict what's going to be a hit.
We have lost certainty and predictability in the regulatory and tax climate in America, and this is why we're recovering so slowly.
You learn that not all things fall into a certain kind of pattern that can be predictable and that can be understandable and that's going to be easy, you know.
The world wide web has really been quite spectacular and not something I would have predicted.
The reactions of the human heart are not mechanical and predictable but infinitely subtle and delicate.
The latest scientific assessment has almost doubled the predicted rate of warming if no changes are made.
Dolores Umbridge: Predict something. Sybil Trelawney: Erm. You... are in great danger! Dolores Umbridge: Lovely!
If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we could predict exactly the situation of the same universe at a succeeding moment.
I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I've relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true.
Is it possible that mathematical pathology, i.e. chaos, is health? And that mathematical health, which is the predictability and differentiability of this kind of a structure, is disease?
It's always hard to predict what's coming up next. My main guess is that content creators will increasingly start using BitTorrent to distribute their own work directly.
To me, the conclusion that the public has the ultimate responsibility for the behavior of even the biggest businesses is empowering and hopeful, rather than disappointing. My conclusion is not a moralistic one about who is right or wrong, admirable o...
For his part, Mendeleev scanned Lecoq de Boisbaudran’s data on gallium and told the experimentalist, with no justification, that he must have measured something wrong, because the density and weight of gallium differed from Mendeleev’s prediction...
You can't predict the outcome. You can't raise a child and then tell them what to think.
Death has become so predictable that I have neither the youthful reverence of it nor the middle-age fear.
You couldn’t predict what was going to happen for one simple reason: people.
Through all aspects of society be it art, design, the financial markets, government, technology or communications we are witnessing unprecedented global transformation - the result of which is impossible to predict.
