David Plouffe Quotes

You cannot guess what happens in the future.

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

The future is inherently uncertain.

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

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

I don't think of myself predicting things. I'm expressing possibilities. Things that could happen. To a large extent it's a question of how badly people want them to.

I can't predict the future.

A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.

Nobody knows what will happen in the future.

It's always dangerous quoting numbers and expectations.

You can't know what the future holds, though you might conjecture on it, and if you're psychic, you might venture a guess.

All imaginable futures are not equally possible.

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

Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.

It's hard to speculate what tomorrow may bring.

I'm not making any bets on the future.

The problem with predictions is that so much of the future depends on external factors.

It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.

You never know what's going to happen in the future.

No one can predict the future.

I don't like to predict the fights. People can do that. They can predict my fights, but I never do that.

If we all had crystal balls, we'd all know which horse to back, wouldn't we?

Nobody knows the future.

If I had to lay bets, my bet would be that everything is going to go to hell, but, you know, what else have we got except hope?

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.