Prediction Quotations

Prediction is structurally inseparable from the business of punditry: It creates the essential image of indefatigable authority that is punditry's very architecture; it flows from that calcified image, and it provides the substance for the story that keeps getting told about the inevitability of American progress.

There is no justifiable prediction about how the hypothesis will hold up in the future; its degree of corroboration simply is a historical statement describing how severely the hypothesis has been tested in the past.

If I would need to make a prediction I still believe Kaplan's scenario is very plausible.

Although almost every theoretical physicist agrees with my prediction that a black hole should glow like a hot body, it would be very difficult to verify experimentally because the temperature of a macroscopic black hole is so low.

One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.

My easy prediction is that The Beatles will sell a lot of songs online, even though seemingly everybody who has access to them has their songs already.

Nobody wanted to be out there with a prediction that turned out to be wrong,

No prediction on the score, because they have an outstanding quarterback., great defense and offense. But I do believe the Cards will prevail.

The price tag was high really due to the research and program development. We're all aware that at that price, this system couldn't be duplicated at other schools. But most of the money was paid for the development. So my prediction is that in the future, the price of this system will be much lower.

If I was making a prediction today, we'll be on the picket line, forced there by DaimlerChrysler management,

I got a prediction right now: A Maverick will walk away with the title.

What we have here is a prediction that the cycle is going to be very active, and what we need and what we're of course working on is to be able to predict individual storms with a couple days or hours in advance so the grids can take the action.

We think 750,000 (units) is the best prediction based on today's fuel prices. I think we may maintain our volume at other people's expense, even if the segment shrinks a little bit.

He has good command of both sides of the plate. He was only a sophomore. I remember we were thinking, 'This kid's going be dealing when he's a senior. Unfortunately, that prediction came through.

I make a prediction here and now, and, my friends, I want you to watch the proceedings of Congress in these coming weeks of this extra session, or of the next regular session, to see whether I am right or not.

There is no example of someone reading their scripture and saying, 'I have a prediction about the world that no one knows yet, because this gave me insight. Let's go test that prediction,' and have the prediction be correct.

My prediction is that y'all gonna hate on the style we create, straight 2008.

My prediction was that it would go up $50,000. Instead, it doubled. If it keeps going at 10 percent increments today, that's another $100,000.

I will never, ever make a prediction with any Southwestern Conference team this year. Every time I think that I might have a read on a game, you can just throw it out the window. If you can predict a game after all the stuff that's happened so far . . . Good luck.

Junior is a little bit up in the air right now. We don't know exactly, the extent, so I would be guessing if I made any kind of prediction on what his status would be, relative to the next week or so.

It is difficult to make any kind of an accurate prediction of how many of these will strike land, ... But I think statistically you can look at the fact that when seasons are more active, and we have a higher level of hurricanes, you have a higher chance of hurricanes striking the United States.

I think the safest prediction of all would be that January 2007 will be colder than January 2006.

Our prediction is Thailand will become like Mindanao in the next five years unless the Thai government takes decisive steps to control and contain the local insurgency.

I think that if we don't embrace these new conclusions we're doing a disservice to younger women. My prediction is that in the months to come, people will see the evidence and change their opinion.

The prediction as of right now is that it's going to cost between $23 billion and $25 billion, but I think it's going to be a lot more than that.

The prediction is for a real shortage in those trades - carpenters and plumbers especially - because of the age of those workers. Within 10 years, there will be a huge retirement in the skilled labor ranks.

The prediction was that we would get a dozen particles larger than human hair size and one particle a little bit larger than a millimeter.

Two years on, Gates' famous prediction now looks extraordinarily optimistic.

We have two approaches in our research - the empirical model and the mechanistic model. The empirical model generates life prediction from accelerated degradation test data, while the mechanistic model relates life prediction to changes in battery materials. Our approach provides an independent measure of battery life so we don't have to rely on what battery manufacturers tell us.

We are not prepared to make that prediction quite yet. We are still working with our network teams, investment planners and technology vendors to ensure speedy deployment of a high-quality television service.

We were able to get it done the last time, but having said that, I am so far out of the prediction business and have been for 10 or 12 years that I don't want to suggest I know things that other people don't because I just don't.

The Fab Four have always been among the very most popular bands online even though they're technically -- or legitimately -- unavailable online. My easy prediction is that the Beatles sell a lot of songs online, even though seemingly everybody who has access to them has their songs already.

Tougher sentences being dished out are clearly making spammers feel the heat. However, spam is clearly not a thing of the past. E-mail users worldwide are still being bombarded by unsolicited messages, and, two years on, Gates' famous prediction now looks extraordinarily optimistic.

We did some research that showed that the very first word of your message that you send a girl - when we looked at men sending messages to women - the very first word can have a tremendous... can have a very accurate prediction of whether you're going to get a reply.

I understand that this prediction may have been disappointing to some of you, but let me assure you that my confidence in the overall prospects of Nokia remain unchanged,

The timing of this reset relative to current stock prices is not a prediction of further weakness.

The timing of this reset relative to the current stock prices is, again, not a prediction of future weakness. In fact we believe that many of the stronger stocks may be near seasonal bottoms.

They are about to move into their budgeting year and so we typically see a prediction of better hiring as soon as they open up their budget, especially with a new government. There's a lot of optimism in public administration in terms of hiring.

String theory's biggest prediction is that gravity exists. That's good. That's a lot more than preceding theories could do.

ACS is very pleased with Judge Stephens' decision. Our prediction came true.

Right now we only have enough for a water buffalo. My prediction is that we end up buying two cows.

Prediction by analogy -creativity - is so pervasive we normally don't notice it.

Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.

Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future. – Niels Bohr,1885-1962, Danish Physicist

We think the concern is well-founded, and that's not based on a prediction that inflation will be higher in the future, but we find that the impact of inflation is often underestimated in the planning process. Small numbers have a big impact over longer-term horizons.

This is not an earthquake prediction instrument. We are testing whether these types of earthquakes on this particular fault are predictable.

If I were to make a prediction now, I'd have New Jersey and San Jose in the finals. And both are available at double-digit odds (to win the Stanley Cup) as the playoffs begin.

I'm sad about it. I really thought Nicollette was a shoo-in. In terms of Eva, my prediction is she's leaving us all in the dust.

If you leave it until the end of the rainy season, it is pretty much too late because the malaria kicks in very soon afterwards. We're talking about pushing the prediction horizon back several months, which really does give a lot more lead time.

A child's weight at three years is a good prediction of what his weight will be at age five, and so on. Weight states tend to persist over time.

Absurd. The prediction of a 4-degree increase in global temperatures in the next 100 years is ridiculous, and that kind of an increase in sea level is greatly overblown.

All other things being equal, if the SEC brings an enforcement action and gets a settlement, the cost of private litigation usually is larger than that. But it's very hard to make a prediction in this case.

It's really difficult to make a prediction for the coming days.

The minor labor shortage of the 1980s, plus the prediction of a shrinking work force, made us really focus on these issues. We knew it wasn't going to be just a blip.

I hope I'm wrong. But for the prediction to be wrong, stocks have to go up 18.5 percent in 2002.

Good question. The stock market is living proof that everybody loves to bet, and we think a wager on this prediction will appeal to all who follow the markets, whether they are big or small players.

It's amazing, when I look back on my career, how often he was dead-on in his prediction of what we needed to do to be successful,

A prediction can be made that in the next five years China will pursue growth in a fair, balanced and sustainable way.

The Fifties and Sixties were years of unreal optimism about weather forecasting. Newspapers and magazines were filled with hope for weather science, not just for prediction but for modification and control. Two technologies were maturing together: the digital computer and the space satellite.

It's too early to talk about potential losses. But compared to yesterday's prediction of a 175-mile-per-hour storm making a beeline for New Orleans, we're breathing a sigh of relief.

At least there is progress of California toward building new construction according to earthquake-resistant design. We would have less reason to ask for earthquake prediction if this was universal.

It remains a daunting challenge to unseat the incumbents. It's challenging to make any kind of prediction at this point.

This more pure measure has a nearly perfect prediction pattern dating back to 1966, with leads of 9-20 months.

This move no doubt responds to a relative lack of commercially available credit models in the market, and the strong need for more advances in this space. Banks need proven credit models backed by experience and strong data sets, both to use as primary sources of default prediction and to benchmark their own internally-developed models against. This is now a key strategic advantage, and banks that do not use state of the art credit models will find themselves at a distinct disadvantage, both from a pricing and origination perspective, and a portfolio profitability perspective.

This prediction of an active solar cycle suggests we're potentially looking at more communications disruptions, more satellite failures, possible disruptions of electrical grids and blackouts, more dangerous conditions for astronauts.

We certainly can't feel punished if his prediction is six more weeks of winter, because we haven't had six days of winter.

It's awfully hard to read the tea leaves this time. But the harder I've thought about this, the more I come back to Judge Gonzales as the most likely choice. I'm not terribly confident in that prediction but it's the one I've decided I'm making.

It looks definitely that we are way out of the ordinary. My prediction is that this will be a big flu season. It's all over Northern California.

Colleges all over the country are interested in 'Tiny,' ... Some of the best schools in country have been calling me already. My prediction is that even though she hasn't won an age-group national title, by the time she gets off to college she will be one of the top divers at NCAA level.

I called the folks on Sunday when there was talk the storm would be a big one. I wondered about boarding up my house. They said the storms aren't much when they get to us, and the prediction was this one would turn east once it hit land.

One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible.

Well, Larry predicted that the software industry would consolidate, and through billions of dollars in his spending, he's managed to make his prediction come true,

It's the place where my prediction from the sixties finally came true: 'In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.' I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is, 'In fifteen minutes everybody will be famous.