#prediction

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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.


M. H. Abrams


#decades #false #having #learn #lived

She gave a little sob deep in her throat. 'Call it a prophecy, call it a prediction, call it fate - call it what you will. I fought against it hard enough, God knows. But the evidence of my own eyes, my own ears, my own senses, is too much for me. And the time's too short now. I'm afraid to take a chance. I haven't got the nerve to bluff it out, to sit pat. You don't gamble with a human life. Today's the 13th, isn't it? It's too close to the 14th; there isn't time-margin enough left now to be skeptical, to keep it to myself any longer. Day by day I've watched him cross off the date on his desk-calendar, drawing nearer to death. There are only two leaves left now, and I want help! Because on the 14th - at the exact stroke of midnight, as the 15th is beginning -' She covered her face with both arms and shook silently. 'Yes?' urged McManus. 'Yes?' 'He's become convinced - oh, and almost I have too - that at exactly midnight on the 14th he's to die. Not just die but meet his death in full vigor and health, a death rushing down to him from the stars he was born under - rushing down even before he existed at all. A death inexorable, inescapable. A death horrid and violent, inconceivable here in this part of the world where we live.' She took a deep, shuddering breath, whispered the rest of it. 'Death at the jaws of a lion.' ("Speak To Me Of Death")


Cornell Woolrich


#death #fate-destiny #inescapable #prediction #prophecy

If Apple were to grow the iPod into a cell phone with a web browser, Microsoft would be in big trouble.


Paul Graham


#prediction #age

I've ceased making predictions on things because we'll see how they turn out.


David Plouffe


#ceased #how #i #making #out

Predictions are preposterous.


Jackie Mason


#preposterous

A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.


Wendy Carlos


#best #blend #heart #nice #prediction

I've been around since I was 19, I won the Oscar when I was 21, I've had a couple of TV series. I've continued to work despite the predictions of some naysayers.


Marlee Matlin


#been #continued #couple #despite #had

I think people are going to return to sanity when they see how ridiculous many of these charges are, and how the predictions are not borne out.


Dixie Lee Ray


#charges #going #how #i #i think

There's no point in making predictions. It's not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.


Cristiano Ronaldo


#because #change #come #football #future

The thing that people associate with expertise, authoritativeness, kind of with a capital 'A,' don't correlate very well with who's actually good at making predictions.


Nate Silver


#associate #capital #correlate #expertise #good