Mike Farrell Quotes

Predictions are a mug's game.

Life seemed even more of a guessing game than usual.

You can predict all you want, but everybody knows what predictions get you.

Forecasting will always be somewhat of a coin toss.

I've never been able to predict the future of anything.

You mustn't take what I say as gospel because no one can second-guess the future.

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

Betting on the success of innovative technologies in the marketplace can carry all the uncertainty and risk that betting on the next card in the deck does at a blackjack table in Las Vegas. There is a factor of randomness that must be factored in, but precisely how to do so is anyone's guess.

You cannot guess what happens in the future.

Nobody knows anything...... Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work. Every time out it's a guess and, if you're lucky, an educated one.

The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future; nay, we see from experience that the forecasts even of the wise almost always turn out false.

It's sad, the lottery. Good projects get funded by it, but there's an air of desperation about it.

Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.

You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.

What are prophecies? Don't we hear them every day of the week? And if one comes true there may be seven blind and come to nothing.

He who lives by the crystal ball will eat shattered glass.

I say the one thing about luck is you can't really count on it.

Predictions are preposterous.

Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties.

You don't ever know with films. You just hope for the best, but sometimes it's a bit of a crapshoot.

I can't predict the future.

Uncertainty is everywhere and you cannot escape from it.

A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.

There is always something to upset the most careful of human calculations.

The experts, for all their superior knowledge, rarely do better than chance in predicting future events.