Vince Lombardi Quotes

While data can only tell you what has happened in the past, it can in some ways give you a sense of what might be of interest to an audience in the future.

The whole enterprise of teaching managers is steeped in the ethic of data-driven analytical support. The problem is, the data is only available about the past. So the way we've taught managers to make decisions and consultants to analyze problems condemns them to taking action when it's too late.

Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future.

Being insignificant statistically doesn't mean it's right or wrong. It just means you don't have enough data to show yes or no.

How can you make sense of the future when you only have data about the past?

We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.

He who would foresee what is to happen should look to what has happened: for all that is has its counterpart in time past.

After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the past and converting it to a map by which we can navigate.

I think you can learn from history.

History is history.

When you try to predict future E.R.A.'s with past E.R.A.'s, you're making a mistake.

History is Philosophy teaching by example.

Any one game in baseball doesn't tell you that much, just as any one poll doesn't tell you that much.

History is philosophy teaching by examples.

History didn't begin yesterday.

Ancient histories provide windows to knowing current affairs.

The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data.

The specific experience with which economics and economic statistics are concerned always refers to the past. It is history, and as such does not provide knowledge about a regularity that will manifest itself also in the future.

The context of history proved invaluable.

History is a heavy thing everywhere.

I love historical references.

I'm a historian. I really like the past. But most people seem far more interested in what you can tell them about the future.

Numbers can't speak for themselves, and data sets - no matter their scale - are still objects of human design.

There is an excellent way to make predictions without the slightest risk of error: predict the past.

Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot study the future.