101 Quotes About Prediction

Prediction and explanation are exactly symmetrical. Explanations are, in effect, predictions about what has happened; predictions are explanations about what's going to happen.

[M]achine learning will bring about not just a new era of civilization, but a new stage in the evolution of life on earth.

Tomorrow's cyberspace will be a vast parallel world that selects only the most promising things to try out in the real one. It will be like a new, global subconscious, the collective id of the human race.

And then Homo technicus will evolve into a myriad different intelligent species, each with its own niche, a whole new biosphere as different from today's as today's is from the primordial ocean.

None can predict one's real nature when everything goes in a perfect way.

Our world is increasingly complex, often chaotic, and always fast-flowing. This makes forecasting something between tremendously difficult and actually impossible, with a strong shift toward the latter as timescales get longer.

Some prediction change the people they think about the world and some make them bigotry.

From Mom-Pop stores to Organised Retail, from Organised Retail to e-Commerce, from e-commerce back to Mom-Pop stores, commerce in the world is going to come a full circle.

I succumbed to the lure of the oracle, he thought. And he sensed that succumbing to this lure might be to fix himself upon a single-track life. Could it be, he wondered, that the oracle didn't tell the future? Could it be that the oracle made the future?