Megan McArdle Quotes

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

I'm a lousy predictor of the future.

I can't predict the future.

Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future.

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.

I can't speak for the future. I have no crystal ball.

I am incredibly bad at predicting the future; I am only smart enough to observe the present and listen to my intuition about tendencies.

Predicting the future is very difficult. As a historian I have trouble trying to predict the past.

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

None of us posses a crystal ball.

Foreseeing the future is always difficult.

No one can predict the future.

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

Nobody can see into the future. Nobody knows what going to go on.

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

Never make predictions, especially about the future.

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

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

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.

We are incredibly poor predictors of our future.

I can't predict the future.

Predictions are so often, so wrong ... The future is just too complicated.

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

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

A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.