Predictions Quotes

You look at the Abby Joseph Cohen stuff and you wonder why Goldman doesn't just stop it already. Guys, it's been three years of bad predictions. You're being ridiculed. - Larry Rice

Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation? - Thomas Sowell

With predictions of more price increases next winter, the government must act now to make sure pensioners have enough money in their pockets to cover basic living costs. - Gordon Lishman

While the predictions are all in fun, there is extremely sophisticated math behind them. Of course, we wouldn't advise any studio execs to make decisions based only on our predictions. If a studio does buy one of the films we've predicted to be a hit, our engineers have told me they'd be happy to attend any acquisition parties to provide the irrefutable statistical data to backup the studio's decision. - Matthew Prince

While I remain troubled by the Corps' inability to fully justify the Model they used for their commercial traffic predictions, America clearly has an aging lock and dam infrastructure on the Mississippi. - Ron Kind

Which one of us with our bank manager would get away with predictions that are so wildly off it appears you don't know what's going on? - John Tory

Whether people believe his predictions or not everyone seems to look to the groundhog to predict some kind of relief in the midst of winter. With all the erratic weather we've experienced so far across the United States this winter we thought our players might enjoy a chance to have some fun with it. - Alex Czajkowski

What the president was referring to was the sense that, after the storm had initially passed, that there was a sense that that worst-case scenario had not happened. Some have taken it out of context to suggest he was referring to any predictions before the hurricane hit. - Scott McClellan

What makes evolution a scientific explanation is that it makes testable predictions... You only believe theories when they make non-obvious predictions that are confirmed by scientific evidence. - Eric Lander

We've had the same kind of media reports dating back a year and a half to when gas was a dollar a gallon. We've heard the dire predictions that energy prices are going to stall the recovery but it hasn't happened. So far, I think people have been able to absorb the jump in gas prices to $2.25 or $2.50 a gallon. There's probably a limit, though, about $3 a gallon. - Janet Harrah