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I'm not really good with predicting.
Predicting the market is always tough.
Predicting oil prices is anyone's guess.
Charts are great for predicting the past.
I stopped predicting the future a long time ago.
Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does.
I was not predicting the future, I was trying to prevent it.
I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.
Predicting and responding to the global economy will be the biggest challenge.
I am actually better at predicting or talking about 30 years later than three years.
I'm the only one who was predicting the Nintendo Wii would beat Sony's PlayStation 3.
I never want to be in the business of predicting what the U.S. Supreme Court will do.
I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.
It is hard to have great confidence in predicting what market reactions to Fed decisions will be.
I don't think I've had any great success in predicting politics or social change, nor have I really tried.
That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you.
To tell you the truth, there are all these websites predicting my early death, and it's starting to work on me!
I don't always do a lot of predicting, but, when I get a really strong feeling about something, I will tell people.
I don't think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the 'experiment.'
The best merchants in the world aren't the ones predicting what's cool next; we're the ones dictating what's cool next.
Science fiction is about extrapolation, looking back through history, spotting a trend, and predicting where it will go.
I've become increasingly fascinated with social media to improve on traditional ways of preparing for and predicting the future.
Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.
The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine.
I am incredibly bad at predicting the future; I am only smart enough to observe the present and listen to my intuition about tendencies.
I'm a historian. The act of predicting the future discomfits me, in any event - and the bigger the prediction, the more distrusting I am.
It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.
Being around a church culture, even leading a gathering of believers, I've gotten pretty good at predicting what's going to happen in a church service.
'Profit' in my mind is as good as television gets, and if that didn't make it, all bets are off on really predicting what's going to work and what's not.
I don't think of myself predicting things. I'm expressing possibilities. Things that could happen. To a large extent it's a question of how badly people want them to.
Grief is bizarre territory because there's no predicting how long it'll take to get over certain things. You just don't know how long it's going to resound in your life.
I'm not engaged in predicting random number generators. I actually get phone calls from people who want to know what lottery numbers are going to win. I don't have a clue.
At a very young age I was predicting outcomes, trying to take all the information and find the best route to wherever I was going. I avoided a lot of pitfalls because of that.
Science is a little bit more than a wonderful way of modelling and predicting; it's a wonderful technical abstraction. I think science is a really wonderful technical abstraction.
Alternatives to oil are coming up. In the long run, it is not going to be as bleak as people are predicting but surely consumption of fuel by automobile sector is going to go down.
Insofar as international law is observed, it provides us with stability and order and with a means of predicting the behavior of those with whom we have reciprocal legal obligations.
You could claim that moving from pixelated perception, where the robot looks at sensor data, to understanding and predicting the environment is a Holy Grail of artificial intelligence.
My brother has endless footage of us as kids because he had a video camera when we were growing up. The trippiest part was my younger self predicting my future path, like a truth-seer.
Let me just say that while I personally am very fond of John Boehner, his record of predicting what would happen if certain policies, economic policies were instituted is abysmal, okay?
I am not predicting here that Obama will fail like Jimmy Carter. What I am predicting is the Republican Party is not extinct and will after a period of time become a strong opposition party.
Prediction is certainly a valuable goal in science, but not the only one. Explanation is also important, and there are plenty of sciences that do a lot of explaining and not much predicting.
We listen to the entrepreneur. We try to have a fine tuning fork to understand what they are saying and whether that makes sense and know it when we see it. We don't try to do too much predicting.
Venture-capital firms invest in trends by projecting returns. But most projections are pretty much bogus, and research shows that experts are no better at predicting the future than dart-throwing monkeys.
It can be easy to get swept up into catastrophizing the situation once your thoughts become negative. When you begin predicting doom and gloom, remind yourself that there are many other potential outcomes.
Every actor, director, and producer want all their films to do well. So you choose the role carefully, listen to the script, and work hard. But there is no way of predicting whether it will be a hit or a flop.
Predicting what content is going to fly is like looking into a crystal ball. I try not to say, 'Yeah, 'Bridesmaids' opened the door to make more movies about women.' I mean, did it? I don't know; where are they?
My mother is not a model. She is not perfect. That awareness is part of learning to love someone. Predicting the actions of someone is an act of love. We persist, even when we get it wrong. That's the beauty of love.
I believe there is true expertise in some endeavors, and not in others. There is obviously no such thing as expertise in predicting the results of coin tosses, but there is expertise in predicting the behavior of lasers.
Every cancer looks different. Every cancer has similarities to other cancers. And we're trying to milk those differences and similarities to do a better job of predicting how things are going to work out and making new drugs.
I think almost all strategic problems could at least be improved upon if people would do more careful game-theoretic analysis. The reason game theory works in predicting is because people intuit how to behave game-theoretically.