Mark Zuckerberg Quotes

To understand the difficulty of predicting the next 100 years, we have to appreciate the difficulty that the people of 1900 had in predicting the world of 2000.

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

It's impossible for us to forecast what's going to happen ten years from now and make a decision today to say what we're going to do.

Nobody believes a weather prediction twelve hours ahead. Now we're being asked to believe a prediction that goes out 100 years into the future? And make financial investments based on that prediction? Has everybody lost their minds?

I refuse to say anything beyond five years because I don't think we can see much beyond five years.

I never try to make any far-reaching predictions, so much can happen that it simply only makes you look stupid a few years later.

People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in ten.

Forecasting is very difficult, especially when it involves the future.

I'm a historian. The act of predicting the future discomfits me, in any event - and the bigger the prediction, the more distrusting I am.

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.

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

We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.

Predictions are hard, especially about the future.

I am actually better at predicting or talking about 30 years later than three years.

Today, if someone showed me a five-year plan, I'd toss out the pages detailing Years Three, Four and Five as pure fantasy Anyone who thinks he or she can evaluate business conditions five years from now, flunks.

To predict the future we would have to know today what we will learn tomorrow which will shape our future actions

With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured.

We have the same problem as everyone else: It's very hard to predict the future.

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

It is the ability to make predictions about the future that is the crux of intelligence.

I do not like to talk about the future. I don't like to be one of those people. It's so easy to have a very vague idea and say, oh, computers will be 3D-ish and then 10 years later I'll say I predicted it 10 years ahead. I don't think that's honest and I don't think that's valid and worth anything.

You can't see the future, there's no such thing. It's all bets. You'll never get the same answer from two seers. But that doesn't mean either of them's wrong.

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

People who try to predict the future by extrapolating in a line of more of what exists - they are always wrong.

No one ever thinks about what the hell is going to happen 25 years from now.