#predicting

Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather. ↗

— Dan Rather

#big #came #country #entire #entire country

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. ↗

— Ed Rollins

#am #become #carter #extinct #fail

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

#always #feeling #get #i #lot

It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset. ↗

— Arthur Eddington

#because #deals #determinism #impossible #into

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