Edgar Fiedler Quotes

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

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

Prediction is difficult - particularly when it involves the future.

We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much.

It's difficult to talk about the future because you never know.

Nobody knows what will happen in the future.

Nobody knows the future.

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

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

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

People don't realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of what causes what, but that's as far as we go. And I've had a very successful career as a forecaster, starting in 1948 forward. The number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that.

Never make predictions, especially about the future.

You know the old saying: you win some, you lose some... and then there's that little-known third category.

It doesn't always happen according to the way you have planned things out but I feel if you have covered most of the aspects, it does help out there in the middle.

When we get to the future, I'll determine the future.

I figure lots of predictions is best. People will forget the ones I get wrong and marvel over the rest.

I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you're never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It's in the spirit of it.

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.

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

I can't predict the future.

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

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

It’s very hard to predict the weather. Predicting human affairs is very difficult.

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

It's the ability to foretell what will happen tomorrow, next month, and next year --- and to explain afterward why it didn't happen.