I think people are going to return to sanity when they see how ridiculous many of these charges are, and how the predictions are not borne out.
If I am going to trash others for their dumb predictions, I must at least hold myself to the same sort of accountability.
Social Security has been effective for 70 years; prior predictions of its demise have been totally overstated.
Keep a strict, predictable schedule 365 days a year that has you eating, sleeping, and exercising at about the same times day in and day out.
I won't even try to predict the specifics, but I think the ebook - as a medium - could be a game-changer.
If I would need to make a prediction I still believe Kaplan's scenario is very plausible.
You can't predict anything. How can you be certain about anything when everything is chaos and we're not in control?
I'm conservative, and people know where I stand. They can trust me to do what I say I'm going to do. I'm predictable.
Phil: This is one time where television really fails to capture the true excitement of a large squirrel predicting the weather.
About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power.
Jazz and poetry both involve a structure that may be familiar and to some extent predictable. And then, you try to create as much surprise and spontaneity and feeling and variation while respecting that structure.
Quantum mechanics broke the mold of the previous framework, classical mechanics, by establishing that the predictions of science are necessarily probabilistic.
Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.
Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.
I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity.
I was too restless as a boy to sit through an entire mass. It was akin to aversion training. I looked at it like a puppet show with a totally predictable story line. The only aspect I really liked was the music.
I think the problem with a lot of the fusion music is that it's extremely predictable, it's a rock rhythm and the solos all play the same stuff and they play it over and over again and there's a certain musical virtuosity involved in it.
I can't actually read interviews with thesps now because they're almost always fantastically predictable, the men especially. Actors are forever stressing their ordinariness, their beer and football-loving commitments.
In a world with amazing amounts of statistics and demographics available, If you don't utilize foresight, statistics, demographics, projections and predictions the competition will.
I don't like shows that are predictable. I like it when you're shocked and you have no idea who's about to die.
It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.
