Forecast Quotes

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

The most reliable way to forecast the future is to try to understand the present. John Naisbitt

Future Try Way Reliable Most Forecast Understand Present

We really can't forecast all that well, and yet we pretend that we can, but we really can't. Alan Greenspan

Pretend Well Forecast Really

We futurists have a magic button. We follow every statement about a failed forecast with 'yet.' Alvin Toffler

Every Statement Follow Magic About Failed Forecast Button

Workers and jobs are naturally heterogeneous, and the quality of their interaction when paired is difficult to forecast. David Autor

Quality Difficult Jobs Forecast Interaction Workers Naturally

In college, I was a weather anchor for the local news. I would 'borrow' my forecast from The Weather Channel. Emily Procter

News College Weather Channel Local Local News Anchor Would Borrow Forecast

My youth held little forecast of a career in biomedical research. I was born on February 22, 1936, in York, Pennsylvania, and spent my childhood in a rural area on the west bank of the Susquehanna River. J. Michael Bishop

Youth Research Spent Pennsylvania Rural Born Area February River Forecast West West Bank York Bank Childhood Little Held Career Biomedical

No one can forecast the economy with certainty. Jamie Dimon

No-One Economy Forecast Certainty

The key to making a good forecast is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information. Nate Silver

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You don't want to influence the same system you are trying to forecast. Nate Silver

You System Forecast Trying Same Influence Want

As a species, I think we have no choice but to try and forecast pandemics. Nathan Wolfe

Try Think No Choice Forecast Choice Species

Practically, systemic thinking can be used to identify problems, analyze their boundaries, design strategies and policy interventions, forecast and measure their expected impacts, implement them, and monitor and evaluate their successes and failures. Paul Polman

It is indeed true that the stock market can forecast the business cycle. Paul Samuelson

Business Market Indeed True Forecast Stock Stock Market Cycle

Because of the rate of technology change, forecast horizons are shrinking. Steve Jurvetson

Technology Change Horizons Rate Because Forecast Shrinking

The future will be less predictable, forecast rises will shrink, company lifetimes will shrink, new entrants will proliferate and it's going to just get more unpredictable. Steve Jurvetson

Future Will Proliferate Unpredictable Rises More Lifetimes New Forecast Get Going Just Predictable Less Company Shrink

I never understand why 'economist makes forecast' is ever a headline. Whether the economist in question is from the International Monetary Fund, a City forecasting group or the Treasury - a forecast is still not news. Tim Harford

News Group City Never Headline Economist Forecast Forecasting Makes Understand Still Question Whether International Fund Why Ever Monetary Treasury

I do not forecast playing until 38 or 39. Toni Kroos

Until Forecast Playing

I like the fact that the weather forecast is always wrong. In a world of BlackBerry insta-connection, Google research, and Hadron Colliders, it is a daily reminder of the ultimate ignorance of man. It is a signpost towards all the enormous things we cannot understand. Victoria Coren Mitchell

You don't need to know this - but here goes: due to some acquired infantilism, I feel compelled to fall asleep listening to the radio. On a good night, I'll push the frail barque of my psyche off into the waters of Lethe accompanied by the midnight newsreader - on a bad one, it's the shipping forecast. Will Self

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