#predict

The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all, we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds. That way we can keep open all the options, as we have in the past. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#agency #any #connected #dangerous #entrusted

My predictions are notably inaccurate. ↗

— Robert Caro

#notably #predictions

But I'd rather not predict. I'd rather affect. ↗

— James Carville

#i #predict #rather

This life of ours, this is a wonderful life. If you can get through life like this and get away with it, hey that's great. But it's very predictable. There's so many ways you can screw it up. ↗

— Paul Castellano

#get #great #hey #life #like

In a world with no systems, with chaos, everything becomes a guerilla struggle, and this predictability is not there. And it becomes almost impossible to save lives, educate kids, develop economies, whatever. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#becomes #chaos #develop #economies #educate

Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable. ↗

— Patricia Cornwell

#best-seller #even #feel #insecure #unpredictable

The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy, but the ones that contain the deepest explanations. ↗

— David Deutsch

#complexity #contain #deepest #explanations #hierarchy

The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#experience #hypothesis #only #prediction #relevant

To some, the '50s were a decade marked by the banal, the predictable. ↗

— Annette Funicello

#decade #marked #predictable #some #were

I never predict anything, and I never will. ↗

— Paul Gascoigne

#i #never #predict #will