Future Forecasting Quotes

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

People always overestimate how much will change in the next three years, and they underestimate how much will change over the next 10 years.

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

I never try to imagine the future. I kinda think it's a waste of time. I live in the now.

The most reliable way to forecast the future is to try to understand the present.

All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.

Every New Year comes with a list of predictions. Self-predictions, world predictions, how many times Lindsay Lohan will get arrested predictions, etc. I reserve the annual trend for people with genuine psychic ability and/or bloggers.

I'm a lousy predictor of the future.

I see stuff from the future, and I'm such a futurist that I have to slow down and talk in the present.

You can't see the future through a rearview mirror

We are always looking into the future, but we see only the past.

Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.

It will be a vast boon to mankind when we learn to prophesy the precise dates when cycles of various kinds will reach definite stages.

We've put huge resources into predicting tsunamis, hurricanes, and earthquakes. HIV/AIDS is like an earthquake that's lasted 30 years and touched every country on the planet. We have such incredible capacity to think about the future, it's time we used it to predict biological threats. Otherwise we'll be blindsided again and again.

Every part of your business will change based on what I consider predictive analytics of the future.

If you think too far ahead, if you even try to think too far ahead, you'll never make it.

Those who believe in this type of thing [Paul the Octopus, who ‘predicted’ the result of World Cup matches] cannot be the leaders of the global nations that aspire, like Iran, to human perfection, basing themselves in the love of all sacred values.

Ere we can forecast the future we must understand the present and bring a just sense of proportion to our review of the history of the past.

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

I basically look at how exponential emerging technological changes runs counter-intuitive to the way our linear brains make projections about change, and so we don't realize how fast the future is coming.

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

When I was a teenager, a psychic told me, 'Your biggest challenge will be life-work balance.' That's certainly turned out to be true!

I'm no genius. I'm not at all; I just happen to look five or 10 years ahead and think things through.

Big data is mostly about taking numbers and using those numbers to make predictions about the future. The bigger the data set you have, the more accurate the predictions about the future will be.

Now this really annoys me: All these people getting on the Internet and saying Nostradamus predicted this. If Nostradamus were alive today his name would be Miss Cleo and he'd be charging $2.99 a minute.