To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I violated the Noah rule: Predicting rain doesn't count; building arks does.
Warren Buffett
The consequences of our actions are so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.
J. K. Rowling
We predict, there will be a large deficit of corn in the world, and we have the opportunity to cover the deficit as we have a large area for corn planting.
Fadel Muhammad
We want to win it this year. You have to win the first game, though. The morning games are very, very odd games. You can't predict what is going to happen. You never know what your kids will do. We were in a fog during that 10:30 game [against Evanston last year].
Dave Weber
If I know you're very good in music, I can predict with just about zero accuracy whether you're going to be good or bad in other things.
Howard Gardner
There is a great deal of ambiguity and uncertainty in what they did, and I would not predict how the courts will decide this.
Scott Silliman
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
Eric Hoffer
Predicting what is going to happen in the next month is difficult. Prices probably will go up just because troubles in the Gulf (of Mexico) have driven up prices worldwide.
Rob Schlichting
When one gets into the predicting the future business. One gets into a situation where you are mostly wrong.
John Gagnon
I'm not one bit surprised at what he's done. Not one bit. And I'll predict right now that, if he stays healthy, he'll play on Sundays.
John O'grady
They truly feel they have nothing left. I'm not sure what the end point will be. But I do predict there will be death.
David Remes
There probably never will be an ability to predict West Nile.
Theresa Smith
I don't know right now, and I don't want to predict a timetable. My goal is just to come back.
Todd Pinkston
You cannot possibly predict where the next need is going to come from, ... Be as good as you can be in as many things as you can be good at because you just don't know.
Mark Emmert
One of my few shortcomings is that I can't predict the future.
Lars Ulrich
We're predicting that if fuel prices remain around these sorts of levels, then it could have an impact of around 40 percent on our after-tax profit.
Ralph Norris
It?s getting to the point where more and more health care can be done in an outpatient setting. We?re predicting as much as 50 percent will be delivered in an outpatient environment in the future.
Bob Gilbert
I won't predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.
Michael Phelps
It's too early to predict a sellout. But we're highly optimistic that we're going to set some really big crowds that are pro-Braves.
Derek Schiller
New phenomenon ... the consequences of which are hard to predict.
Mikhail Kasyanov
Given the economic uncertainties, it is difficult to predict how the remainder of the year will transpire.
Rijkman Groenink
What we didn't predict is that it would be so dramatic.
Jonathan Overpeck
I have no idea what plans E! has on Oscar night. If they're suggesting they would do something similar on our red carpet, we would have some good discussions with them. I can predict we would be extraordinarily angry if that happened on our carpet. I cannot predict what we would do afterwards.
John Pavlik
We have to be vigilant, but you can't predict where or how or when [terrorists] will try.
Andy Hayman
We've made conservative assumptions for 2004. We're cautiously optimistic because it's not possible to accurately predict demand.
Tom Szkutak
You can't predict what the housing market is going to look like down the road. You need to do what is best for you when it is best for you.
Wendy Stanczak
The link is very important and it is also important to link it back to the Black Death in the 1300s because there were the kind of weather conditions then -- warmer and wetter -- that we predict for the future.
Nils Stenseth
We have an extreme potential for growth. It's hard to predict what this thing will do.
Joe Colwell
The ability to have consistent delivery across the roadmap … customers love that ability to plan and predict what technology is coming from Microsoft.
Jeff Price
The Biblical prophet doesn't predict the future, but bears witness to the presense of God in history.
Nicolas Gomez Davila
The price increases are at levels that are catastrophic for most people. And I can't predict that prices are going to go down. I wish I could.
Carol Biedrzycki
How can you predict anything? I wouldn't have predicted this. It certainly tests your mettle, ... I'm very pleased with the manner in which everybody has responded.
Dennis Archer
We demonstrated that a realistic pesticides mixture (based on a mixture applied to an actual field) at low, ecologically relevant concentrations can have dramatic effects on amphibian development and growth and ultimately, we predict, survivorship.
Tyrone Hayes
We are not very good at looking at people when they are 16 and predicting what they will be like when they are 30. We know there is a huge drop in violent crime after age 24 or 25.
Laurence Steinberg
There's no foolproof way to predict someone's ability to drive safely.
Dennis Mccarthy
We're very optimistic about both games. But at this point, I think it's way too early for me to predict a sellout.
Derek Schiller
We predict the next solar cycle will be 30 to 50 percent stronger than the last cycle.
Mausumi Dikpati
As far as Ronnie hurting himself, we are aware of how it could affect him. It has affected guys differently over the years and you cannot predict the future. ... Bottom line, we have always wanted to get this deal done ASAP and Ronnie has been working out very hard everyday.
Todd France
I'm not going to get into dissecting election results or predicting the future.
Paul Krell
These numbers are like trying to predict an earthquake.
Susan Gallagher
A philosopher once said 'It is necessary for the very existence of science that the same conditions always produce the same results'. Well, they do not. You set up the circumstances, with the same conditions every time, and you cannot predict behind which hole you will see the electron.
Richard Feynman
By better characterizing crime trends and patterns to predict where crime was likely to occur, the police department could anticipate criminal activity and proactively place their resources.
Colleen Mccue
You can't predict these things. I just thank God that my family's okay.
Jacob Getman
Juries tend to be offended by the idea that consultants are watching their every move and predicting how they are thinking. Nobody likes feeling manipulated.
Jacob Zamansky
With our schedule, it'll be hard to predict how we'll do. But I'd be disappointed if we're not back in contention for the playoffs again.
Larry Wolf
Predicting and understanding space weather will soon be even more vital than ever before.
Richard Behnke
We have the potential to be terrific. But how can you predict?
Steve Sell
The tragedy of Katrina wasn't the failure to predict the track or to predict the intensity of the storm. The tragedy was in preparing people and in particular predicting human behavior.
Dario Moreno
As a network abandons a niche, somebody else will come in who's very hungry and at the back of the pack to try to fill that niche. I'd predict that there will be more cultural channels bubbling up.
Tim Brooks
When a customer, client or patient fails to pay or falls behind on payments, the ability to collect your money decreases dramatically as time passes. Successful debt collections begin as early as possible. It is a good idea to have a collection agency lined up and ready to go, particularly if you can predict there will be a need in the weeks and months ahead.
Steve Austin
There is no way to predict accurately 10 years into the future, given the volatile economy and decisions of airline chief executives that sometimes defy what some of us see as logic.
Seth Young
We're rejecting more applications, collection is being accelerated and we're being more conservative on our credit increases. We're able to predict spending trends a lot quicker than in the past.
Brian Wood
There were some weekends when you had the big new film of the weekend, when you thought you were going to be the only kid on the block. And a film that was a week or two old would be No. 1. There was no way to predict whether people were going to come out for the movies or what they were going to choose.
Jeff Blake
It has been difficult to predict whether pregnancy will be achieved for couples when different factors are at play. We designed this computational model to help the physician who is planning IVF/ICSI for patients. The physician may use the model to plan the best approach and counsel the patients appropriately.
Moshe Wald
If we learned about people's habits, attitudes and behaviors in completely different categories, we felt that, in theory, we could start to predict how people would behave in our own categories.
Phil Barden
A lot of companies are going to go out of business as quickly as they go into business. Competition is cutthroat. I predict many will fall to the wayside.
Tom Austin
I don't predict prices, but I think it will definitely be a downward trend.
Red Cavaney
It's just the beginning of the process, so it's nothing that we can really comment on or predict at this point.
David Pitts
We've been practicing officially for only a few days, so it's hard to predict exactly what kind of performances we may see from our guys this weekend. Putting them out there, especially the freshmen, is sort of like a baptism by fire. I'm interested to see how they respond.
Tim Madden
They [the National Weather Service] can't predict the weather, only God can.
Terry Green
I've never been able to predict what people are going to get mad at. I've tried and I've always been surprised.
Aaron Mcgruder
We are at the low end of what we were predicting. It was a little better than expected, I guess. It was just so warm and wet. A lot of it was melting.
Peter Speicher
Has taught us that you can't really predict what's going to happen during any season. I think we're going to make up ground.
Nikki Rocco
It's best to have one investment style offset another. It is very, very hard to predict whether growth or value . . . is going to outperform.
Chris Reynolds
It depends on how fast you are going when you get hit and what your injury history is. It's very difficult to predict who's going to have a concussion. It could look like it's not that bad of a hit, but it comes down to a lot of factors that we don't even know about at this time.
Mark Lovell
It's the judge's discretion what to do. It's impossible to predict what will happen. Is extending the bargaining possible? Yes.
Will Holman
Not knowing what happened to line, it would be difficult to predict.
Paul Klein
I don't always do a lot of predicting, ... but, when I get a really strong feeling about something, I will tell people.
Michael Johnson
We are learning about the chemical composition of the red giant and how fast it is losing matter itself. With this information we can predict how much longer the red giant will live before becoming a white dwarf.
Sumner Starrfield
How do we predict trends right now for the future? I think we have done the best we can for now.
Juanita Hayes
Agricultural regions are some of the key areas where we would like to understand and predict climate changes in order to aid adaptation to global warming.
David Lobell
What creates dispair is the imagination, which insists on predicting millions of moments, thousands of days, and so drains you that you cannot live the moment at hand.
Andre Dubus
The baseball is going to dictate it. You can't predict not doing well because not everybody's in good shape, so you never know what could happen. We have a good team.
Chairon Isenia
Because we are not the only parties in this meeting, we can't predict the outcome.
Ahmed Hussein
The challenge of predicting terrorism is that unlike fraud, we don't have the same volume of historical data to learn from. Compounding this is the fact that terrorists are constantly changing their methods and do their best to avoid leaving any digital footprints in the first place.
Jeff Jonas
If the market can predict the Fed's policy actions, then it must be the case that Fed policy follows a rule, or policy regularity or some sort.
Cato Institute
They're continuing to make progress. So far we're not predicting a deal won't get done.
Robert Schulz
The climate models predict that as the orbit of Mars evolves, the tilt of its spin axis changes.
Phil Christensen
I can't really predict anything. I'd like to think day-to-day.
Sergei Fedorov
This year, the model is predicting pretty much what a lot of other people are predicting.
Iain Pardoe
When we win, I'll probably end up naked. But I'm predicting a win for sure. You might be reading about me in the papers elsewhere tomorrow.
Mark Crawford
The dollar is weaker initially across the board after the release of the minutes. On your first read through you get the indication they may not be as aggressive as some had been predicting.
Tim Mazanec
Polls explain, not predict. They are instruments that have limits and collect answers from people who may or may not be telling the truth.
Fernando Tuesta
It may be on the radar for our friends at Western Digital, but it's not easy. We're already on our fifth-generation product. As they say, the best way to predict the future is to create it and that has been our belief.
Scott Maccabe
We've had dozens of phone calls from students and parents asking if we would take students, ... There's no way to predict how many students will enroll. We couldn't open every door and that was difficult, but we made a decision to make what resources we can available to these young people, which was easy.
Janie Fouke
I'm not going to predict anything, but we've had a very successful operation in getting our agenda passed and we're confident we'll be successful a second time around.
Sean Spicer
It turns out that when you let people know what other people think, the popular things become more popular. But at the same time, it becomes harder to predict what will be popular.
Duncan Watts
We're still here, and we're still cooking. But the amount of business is hard to predict.
Roberta Shapiro
But some things you just can't predict.
Bruce Inch
They're expecting and predicting a very dry early summer, so we need to begin thinking about how we're going to prepare.
Bennie Seth
I don't think they'll make it on [voter dissatisfaction] alone. But I would have expected the anti-pay-raise thing to fizzle by now, so it's hard to predict.
Henry Teune
The atmosphere is pretty chaotic. That makes it much harder to predict spring and summer weather with any degree of certainty.
Pat Guinan
All the suppliers are extremely nervous. They stand to lose a considerable amount of cash. This is going to be a decision Miller makes on his own based upon where he's at. ... How do you predict a decision like that?
Jim Gillette
I have yet to see any tests predict the success or failure of any teacher in the classroom, ... Passing the bar exam doesn't mean that you are going to be a great lawyer. Obviously, passing the bar exam doesn't mean you are going to be a good politician either.
Charlie Williams
It can predict the trajectory of the ball down to a couple of millimetres.
Paul Hawkins
This is standard stuff, and the numbers don't blow me away. I certainly expect there to be dozens, if not hundreds, of patients who come forward. It's premature to try to predict the ultimate disposition of the cases.
Dhulsini De Zoysa
Although predicting the motion of a particular star is hard over a long period, many astronomers seek to model the general motion of stars around the galaxy.
Robert Massey
I'm not going to predict what I'm gonna do, but I'm gonna come out of there the winner.
Frank Bruno
Although we are developing a better understanding of the biology, epidemiology and evolution of species jumps, we are not yet able to predict future infectious disease threats.
Mark Woolhouse
This hurricane re-writes our folklore. It shows you can't predict anything and can't build to protect.
Bob Anderson
Anything becomes possible if you've got a big enough check. It's hard to predict who might take over who and why.
Greg Fraser
I don't see any way it will be down 20%, like people were predicting.
Dan Castro
As soon as they start predicting a storm, people call and it seems that these storms are coming one after the other.
Peter Evans
I would predict with a very high level of confidence that he would not vote to overrule Roe v. Wade.
Arthur Hellman
I don't think anybody can predict at this time what the future holds for the H5 outbreaks. It's pretty scary.
Clayton Naeve
Our 2004 guidance we believe is conservative, ... We cannot predict fluctuations in foreign currency and in global rates of the euro, pound and yen. This could have a significant impact, positively or negatively, on our results.
Tom Szkutak
You can't get Mother Nature or the weatherman to predict it.
Jeff Collins
It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.
Sir Arthur Eddington
We still cannot predict the bottom with utmost confidence, although cancellations of customer orders have declined significantly.
Jozef Strauss
It's hard to predict what any market will do, but particularly Japan, which has had several false starts in the past years. Japan could continue to ride from here, but it is not guaranteed.
Gregg Wolper
It's certainly part of our cultural heritage, ... We've been predicting for a while that by 2015, 60 to 70 per cent of the Canadian retail sector will be foreign-controlled.
Wendy Evans
If we got a call tomorrow and someone said they wanted to take 20 acres, I wouldn't be surprised. At the same time, I wouldn't predict it either.
Larry Burkhardt
The problem with sports coverage is that you can't predict if the game will be close, or if it will be a runaway. If it's a runaway, then everybody tunes out. You can't predict what will happen.
Douglas Gomery
There is no hope of accurately predicting the intensity change of a hurricane without accurately being able to predict and forecast the conditions in the upper ocean.
Mike Black
ATI has had challenges in the last couple quarters and we are obviously disappointed with our performance and our ability to predict the dynamics of our desktop channel business.
David Orton
By Saturday, I predict being in a crisis mode where I've got areas with no water. However we got here, guys, we've got to work together to get through this.
Bill Rucker
Automotive executives in our survey have been predicting market share advances by Asian brands for years now.
Betsy Meter
We can't predict the future, but we've said all along that those that settle earlier will do better than those that didn't come to the table at the appropriate time.
William Lerach
Fortunately we've never had a sewage spill so big, so we don't really have experience to predict with on that.
Lawrence Lau
One thing we have learned, disruptive technologies rarely unfold in ways we expect or predict. Our challenge is getting people out of the home and into the theaters to be entertained.
Bob Lambert
We cannot predict the number of those killed. We are digging out the victims.
Ali Barani
One of the things I give (Howard) credit for is he has aggressively gone after collections and increased the revenue. So, the numbers may be better than they are predicting.
Judith Langone
We still have no capacity to predict where it's going.
Dr. Julie Gerberding
My feeling is Durango is a special place because it doesn't look and feel like every other place in America. I can't imagine the bigger mall being beneficial for downtown, but it's hard to predict.
Tim Wheeler
This case is extremely complex and confusing. Nobody is predicting that it is going to be resolved quickly.
Jose Miguel Vivanco
My sense is if any (students) decided to protest, it would be a small percentage. But I can't predict the future.
Alan Sullivan
Semiconductor manufacturers have to predict the market. They have to think like their customers and take their own read on consumer interest.
David Carey
I would find it very hard to predict the outcome. I know it's going to be a close issue. And that uncertainty can't be sitting well with the leadership of the Scouts.
Robert O'neil
The goal of the meeting was to find how well we can predict the amounts of fresh water we are going to have for the people of the world and what are the techniques we are using to get this information.
Moustafa Chahine
We've evaluated a bunch of these now, ... We've determined you can't possibly predict how they're going to rule on a certain set of facts in a given case.
Bruce Josten
I did predict that this thing was going to be bigger than 'Planet of the Apes,' and that's a quote.
Mark Hamill
Other times you can use a calendar to predict the kinds of stories the media is looking for.
Joey Skaggs
We built a model based on all the different things they're browsing to predict what should be the content of the message.
Catherine Paschkewitz
There's no way to predict the flu season.
Donna Rheaume
It's difficult to predict if we'll have enough, ... We still need people to have some patience over the next few weeks as it comes in. But I am worried.
Nancy Adams
We tried not to get drunk on the future, but actually to predict it accurately.
Reed Hastings
While you might not expect it, predicting whether a movie is good or bad is a lot like determining whether an email message is spam or not.
Matthew Prince
It's reasonable to expect we will have an influenza pandemic again at some point. As far as when that might occur, that really is impossible to predict.
Tracy Murphy
I did not predict the full range of creativity.
Irvin Lippman
I would predict that this mutation is now endemic and will not go away. I would suspect that this class of drugs will not be used for a long time.
Rick Bright
I used simple algorithms that are able to predict what mutation will give rise to what function.
Yasuo Yoshikuni
It allows us to operate in a smarter fashion and to predict which way the pavement temperature is going and when a certain roadway would freeze.
Jon Carlisle
I predict one of these two teams will win the Super Bowl.
Gilbert Gottfried
We're good at forecasting paths of hurricanes, but we're not as good at predicting intensity and the impact. Take Katrina. There was a massive migration of human capital out of a region. What are the long-term effects?
Michael Crosby
Every property is an illiquid, unique asset, and a computer program cannot accurately predict the price it will fetch on the market.
Matthew Haines
You can't predict the future based on the past. Lifting 30,000 people off rooftops with helicopters is not going to work.
Dante Nomellini
We'll be able to predict this type of events.
Adolfo Garcia
There's $1.8 billion that is apparently at issue here, so this is going to be a matter that we take extremely seriously. It's impossible at this point to predict how long litigation might take.
Kevin Neely
I Predict a Riot.
Kaiser Chiefs
I've gone to a bunch and I don't know if you can predict it. I might put my name in for delegate to the county convention this time.
David Davidson
They went with their head over their heart. I would predict that trend will continue in 2008, ... That's what we're asking voters to do.
William Galston
Then you can start to get an idea of what its orbit is and be able to predict where it's going to be in the future.
Andy Puckett
We have always been, and will continue to be, responsible corporate citizens, but it's impossible to predict what effect the Chapter 11 filing will have on our giving.
Benet Wilson
For the first time, we can predict the strength of the 11-year solar cycle.
Mausumi Dikpati
If we could predict early response, it would be a huge advantage to patients.
Anna Barker
The environment is too different and it's hard to predict when it will happen.
Guan Xuebin
Analysts say to brace for increases. It's really hard to predict. But that seems crazy when they told us it wouldn't go over $3 again and it's gone up $0.30 in a month.
Alexa Gromko
This is not meant to predict a downgrade, but it is to focus on the uncertainty.
Alex Fraser
It's hard to predict what kind of numbers and what kind of results you will end up with, ... All I can say is that it is fun right now, challenging myself to push to be a better player.
Carlos Delgado
It's impossible to predict the weather and so we will look at it again in the morning.
Tony Allen
The economics of the industry are good. But my ability to predict what happens in negotiations over the last 25 years has not been good.
Donald Fehr
Industry experts predict that hybrids could make up nearly 15 percent of total registered vehicles within the next decade.
Greg Toczydlowski
Unfortunately, hurricane and severe weather experts are predicting another very active hurricane season.
Gregory Heidrich
Based on current results, they predict a total of 2,150 Internet users and 930 bill-paying users by December when the test period is ended.
Don Turner
It's very difficult to predict the effect on the network. But streaming media is about the most expensive traffic and uses the most bandwidth.
Mike Gallagher
We hope to eventually be able to predict major events on the sun and to evaluate the impact of magnetic particles hitting the earth.
Richard Behnke
You can never really predict who comes in or what they will need.
Karen Thomas
It's really too difficult to predict.
William Gerstenmaier
Memorizing, guessing, looking at pictures, predicting, substituting, and skipping, are not reading; they are very bad habits.
Phyllis Schlafly
I'm not predicting a double-dip recession, but the odds of it have gone up. Instead of 5 percent, there's maybe a 15 or 20 percent chance of it now.
Robert Macintosh
We've since updated this assumption and now predict that by the second quarter of 2006, 85 percent of large enterprises will have initiated encryption projects.
Rich Mogull
You can't predict the weather. Hurricanes can move in any direction. If you evacuate two or three times and it saves your life only once, that once is enough.
Bill White
We're going to predict that you're going to do about as well as you did in the past.
Marty Ward
We are in many ways in uncharted territory, as far as predicting his recovery.
Dr. Julian Bailes
What children know when they enter kindergarten about things like letters of the alphabet can predict reading scores all the way through 10th grade.
Russ Whitehurst
It would be very difficult to predict what's going to happen from this point forward, ... A lot of it depends on the people at NTP and what they want.
David Ritchie
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
Frank Herbert
There is not the degree of consistency ... that allows one to confidently predict that we shall be returning from Turin with a medal.
Simon Clegg
In the UK we have a tariff that allows unlimited calls. International tariffs are more challenging, as we don't know where our costs are going to be. The costs for international roaming are difficult to predict because of different international carrier charges.
Mike Short
For us to go ahead and try to predict top line, we're just not prepared to go there.
Henry Schacht
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