#predicting

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. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#insofar #international #international law #law #legal

I don't think I've had any great success in predicting politics or social change, nor have I really tried. ↗

— Paul Krugman

#change #great #great success #had #i

I don't think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the 'experiment.' ↗

— Nate Silver

#behavior #experiment #i #observing #participating

The increasing frequency of extreme weather events, droughts and floods is in line with what climate scientists have been predicting for decades - and evidence is mounting that what's happening is more severe than predicted, and will get far worse still if we fail to act. ↗

— David Suzuki

#been #climate #decades #droughts #events

That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you. ↗

— Branford Marsalis

#future #how #jazz #kind #like

I come back to the same thing: We've got the greatest pipeline in the company's history in the next 12 months, and we've had the most amazing financial results possible over the last five years, and we're predicting being back at double-digit revenue growth in fiscal year '06. ↗

— Steve Ballmer

#back #being #come #company #double-digit

I'm predicting that we'll finally have a computer will search my e-mail automatically and delete every message that begins with 'thought you'd be interested,' and then give an electrical shock to the sender to remind him or her to stop send that kind of message. ↗

— Scott Adams

#begins #computer #delete #e-mail #electrical

I stopped predicting the future a long time ago. ↗

— Fred Durst

#future #i #long #long time #predicting

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. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

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Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I've had some failures. On the other hand, I also predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of fundamentalist Islam... and I'm not happy to be right in all of those cases. ↗

— David Brin

#berlin #berlin wall #cases #failures #fall