101 Quotes About Prediction

If America and the Western world continue in their state of unconscious hopelessness, lack of faith and of fortitude, it is predictable that they will not be able to resist the temptation of the big bang by nuclear weapons, which would end all problems - overpopulation, boredom, and hunger - since it would do away with all life.

A prophet is always underestimated, and part of what makes one a prophet is that he doesn't really mind it.

I was not predicting the future, I was trying to prevent it.

The future is like a corridor into which we can see only by the light coming from behind.

We cannot plan a party for the apocalypse because friends of the apocalypse know the apocalypse always shows up uninvited with a half-eaten bag of chips.

To all lazy people; I can predict you're future!You're sitting on either the couch or your bed, watching TV snacking on something, but then you want to change the channel, but you don't wanna get up and so you claim you can't reach it, so you say "Its ToO FaR." and just sit there.Nobody can prove me wrong. Why? because, it's in the future, it hasn't happened yet.

Repeated patterns become facts, and when you're in touch with the facts you can predict the future.

A day will come when certain antiques and old homes will be able to play sounds and voices of our past like record players. Technology will scan the grooves embedded within them as mediums can do without it.

Unless we have good reason to think otherwise, it seems that our best guide to the future is a mirror image of the past. The nearest thing to clairvoyance is to assume that history repeats itself — backward.