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“The old rule of forecasting was to make as many forecasts as possible and publicise the ones you got right. The new rule is to forecast so far in the future, no one will know you got it wrong.”
― Ruchir Sharma, Breakout Nations: In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracles

“It is evident, therefore, that one of the most fundamental problems of psychology is that of investigating the laws of mental growth. When these laws are known, the door of the future will in a measure be opened; determination of the child's present status will enable us to forecast what manner of adult he will become.”
― Lewis Terman

“Interviews were invented to make journalism less passive. Instead of waiting for something to happen, journalists ask someone what should or could happen.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

“Like the weather or bonds between lovers, transformations can never be predicted. All energy transmutes one day or another, in one way or another. Either in its form or composition, or in its position or disposition.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“I nee to reason for a plague, ... As far as I know no comets or eclipses have been forecast, and our sins are not great enough for God to be concerned with us.”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons

“Like the weather or bonds between lovers, transformations cannot always be predicted. All energy transmutes one day or another, in one way or another. Either in its form or composition, or in its position or disposition.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“... common sense is the one thing that will certainly be wrong.”
― George Friedman, The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century

“Vision is the foresight or forecast or insight into the future. Vision is the picture of one's destiny or accomplishment, or simply what a person is meant to do or become.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Michelangelo | Beethoven | Shakespeare: 15 Things Common to Great Achievers

“That most pleasant weather to feel is the one never felt.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“The forecast is
we kiss goodbye and never hello
all kisses are then parting kisses”
― Saul Williams

“Cultural products will spread faster and wider when everybody can see what everybody else is doing. It suggests that the future of many hit-making markets will be fully open, radically transparent, and very, very unequal.”
― Derek Thompson, Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction

“The most important thing that most people get from the news is the prediction of the following day’s weather, which most people are usually able to predict correctly by themselves.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Some people claim that they predicted a downturn, but they forecast a downturn every day, and finally, one day, they are right. Even a broken clock is right twice a day.”
― Naved Abdali

“Proformas rarely perform; missed projections are more often the norm. Still, we skew them up high, we miss but we try, for proformas which rarely perform.”
― Ryan Lilly

“We have a thousand possible, but only one is the target. (Nous avons mille possibles, - Mais un seul est la cible)”
― Charles de Leusse

“The only thing I cannot predict is the future”
― Amit Trivedi, Riding The Roller Coaster: Lessons from financial market cycles we repeatedly forget

“She grabbed her jacket, although the weatherman had promised a return to seasonable temperatures. But given his record, she saw no reason to trust him. What other occupation got to retain their jobs when they were right only half the time?”
― Kylie Brant, Deadly Dreams

“Markets change, visions change, technologies change, teams change, settings change, relationships changeâ€� with an ever changing environment it will be naive to think that you can draw the future with a straight line.”
― Ines Garcia, Becoming more Agile whilst delivering Salesforce

“Having regular check-ins to align direction is super powerful, the ability to tune and adjust reduces waste and deviation and realignment.”
― Ines Garcia, Becoming more Agile whilst delivering Salesforce

“Deduce.”
― Monaristw

“This chapter is about the hurdles and best practices in idea selection. To figure out how we can make fewer bad bets, I sought out skilled forecasters who have learned to avoid the risks of false positives and false negatives.”
― Adam Grant, Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World

“The forecastersâ€� errors were significantly larger than the average difference between individual forecasts, which indicates herding. Normally, forecasts should be as far from one another as they are from the predicted number.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

“The most robust evidence indicates that this wisdom-of-crowds principle holds when forecasts are made independently before being averaged together. In a true betting market (including the stock market), people can and do react to one another’s behavior.”
― Nate Silver, The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't

“The weather forecast can't predict the storms of life.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov