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Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation? — Thomas Sowell, 1930 -, American political thinker 18 likes | |
The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence. — Talleyrand, 1754-1838, French statesman & diplomat 14 likes | |
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. — Isaac Asimov, 1920-1992, American Sci-Fi writer 8 likes | |
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. — John Kenneth Galbraith, 1908-2006, American-Canadian economist 8 likes | |
The best way to predict your future is to create it. — Peter Drucker, 1909–2005, Austrian management guru 6 likes | |
To see things in the seed, that is genius. — Lao-Tzu, 6th cent. BC, Chinese philosopher 5 likes | |
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. — Laurence J Peter, 1919-1990, Canadian writer & educator 5 likes | |
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 5 likes | |
The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks. — Douglas Adams, 1952-2001, British Sci-Fi writer 5 likes | |
As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it. — Antoin de Saint-Exupéry, 1900-1940, French writer 4 likes | |
I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money. — Charles de Gaulle, 1890-1970, French President (on Vietnam War) 3 likes | |
The prediction I can make with the highest confidence is that the most amazing discoveries will be the ones we are not today wise enough to foresee. — Carl Sagan, 1934-1996, American astronomer 3 likes | |
People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. — George Orwell, 1903-1950, British writer 3 likes | |
While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done. | |
In the end, every hypochondriac is his own prophet. | |
A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs. — Bernard Baruch, 1870-1965, American businessman & statesman | |
I’ve always been careful never to predict anything that had not already happened. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist | |
Karl Marx: a great man who had foreseen everything except Marxism. | |
Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future. | |
The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. |
Funny Quotes
It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future. — Yogi Berra, 1925-2015, American baseball player & humorist 4 likes |
Movie Quotes
You want a prediction about the weather, you're asking the wrong Phil. I'll give you a winter prediction: It's gonna be cold, it's gonna be grey, and it's gonna last you for the rest of your life. — from the film Groundhog Day (1993) 2 likes |