Tom Steyer Quotes

A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.

Tis easy to see, hard to foresee.

Never make predictions, especially about the future.

Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.

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.

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

I can't predict the future.

The rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Nobody knows the future with certainty. We can, however, identify ongoing patterns of change.

It's all well and good to look back after the fact and see what we should have done, but we rarely know what path is best when we take that first step.

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

I can't predict the future.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.

At the simplest level, economics can better show us the consequences of our actions. Less simple are cases in which we don't have the knowledge to predict the full consequences. Global warming and climate change are examples.

Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us.

Information is the resolution of uncertainty.

It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise.

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

There is only one thing about which I am certain, and that is that there is very little about which one can be certain.

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

Good policy analysis recognizes that physical truth may be poorly or incompletely known. Its objective is to evaluate, order, and structure incomplete knowledge so as to allow decisions to be made with as complete an understanding as possible of the current state of knowledge, its limitations, and its implications.

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

My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 'tis to crow: Don't never prophesy — onless ye know.

Predictions are hard, especially about the future.