Rem Koolhaas Quotes

I'm a lousy predictor of the future.

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.

Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future.

Predictions are hard, especially about the future.

Foreseeing the future is always difficult.

I've said many times that I'm not one of those people who check statistics, follows history, and says, 'If I do this, what will happen.'

The key to making a good forecast is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information.

You can build a statistical model and that's all well and good, but if you're dealing with a new type of financial instrument, for example, or a new type of situation - then the choices you're making are pretty arbitrary in a lot of respects.

We are incredibly poor predictors of our future.

Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.

Trying to predict the future is a loser's game.

Nobody wants a prediction that the future will be more or less like the present, even if that is, statistically speaking, an excellent prediction.

History shows us that people are terrible about guessing what is going to happen - next week, next month, and especially next year.

If you have to forecast, forecast often.

The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.

How do Ferrari know what I'm doing next year when I don't know what I'm doing next week?

I can't predict the future.

Humans are terrible at predicting the future. We really overestimate what we can do in the short term and underestimate what we can do in the long term... If we can glimpse even a couple of years into the future, even that's difficult to do.

Prophecy is what we all have to go by now.

But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions.

The future will be determined in part by happenings that it is impossible to foresee; it will also be influenced by trends that are now existent and observable.

One of my few shortcomings is that I can't predict the future.

It's the ability to foretell what will happen tomorrow, next month, and next year --- and to explain afterward why it didn't happen.

I'm not really good with predicting.

Never make predictions, especially about the future.