Steve Wozniak Quotes

I predict, not because I know, but because I'm asked.

I never quite trust futurists because I think they're kind of telling us what they think our future should be.

We can speculate. Last time I checked, the future doesn't take my advice.

Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.

While we may open the books of the past, we may but grant flying glances of the future, through the mist that veils it.

Well, I don't want to become a prognosticator.

My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 'tis to crow: Don't never prophesy — onless ye know.

The art of prophecy is very difficult, especially with respect to the future.

One of the things that I think we have learned is that we should all be very careful about making predictions about the future.

Newspapers tell beforehand what is going to happen - maybe.

We need to stop, and admit it: we have a prediction problem. We love to predict things—and we aren’t very good at it.

Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.

I'm not keen on making predictions.

Predictions are preposterous. What usually happens is that people tell you that what they'd like to see happen instead of what they really think will happen. There are so many variations and possibilities that there's no way to ever really know for certain.

To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Prophecy is what we all have to go by now.

I try not to get involved in the business of prediction. It's a quick way to look like an idiot.

Predictions are preposterous.

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

Prognostics do not always prove prophecies, at least the wisest prophets make sure of the event first.

We turn to experts to tell us the future, even though they have not the foggiest idea themselves. It is a practice that goes back thousands of years.

Any prediction of the future is certainly a lie in order to sell a position.

There is no formula that will guarantee success in forecasting, no magic words that will part the clouds. The real problem, as the old saw puts it, is that the future lies ahead.

We futurists have a magic button. We follow every statement about a failed forecast with 'yet.'