- Nov 07, 2020
Predict Quotes
On forecasting, uncertainty, and staying unpredictable.
Prediction sits at the center of science, sport, and everyday curiosity, and these quotes explore how hard it really is to get right. One line touches on the shifting landscape of Football and other leagues, questioning how many teams can realistically survive.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I predict that many teams will go out of business and the size of the leagues will be greatly reduced.
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The thing I love about my career is the variety and that people can't predict what I'm going to do next.
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There was no way to predict that 'This is Us' was going to be what it is, that it would really resonate with people.
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If the impoverishment and community fragmentation continue, it is not a stretch to predict urban wars sparked by inequality, unemployment, and the breakdown of dialogue between leaders and citizens.
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Speculative markets have always been vulnerable to illusion. But seeing the folly in markets provides no clear advantage in forecasting outcomes, because changes in the force of the illusion are difficult to predict.
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I'd rather be Vincent Price than a red-neck character actor. You can't predict what will happen.
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There's a company in Boston called Ginger IO that has a smartphone app that can predict, two days before you get depressed, that you're going to get depressed.
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Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.
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The main points were: one, the amount of Israel's nuclear weapons, how many Israel had, that no one could predict or know, including the CIA. They were thinking about a number like 10 or 15. But I came out with a number between 150 to 200.
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