#predict

When people expect me to go right, I'll go left. I'm unpredictable. ↗

— Paula Abdul

#go #i #left #me #people

All human plans [are] subject to ruthless revision by Nature, or Fate, or whatever one preferred to call the powers behind the Universe. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#mice-men #planning #plans #unpredictability #men

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#children #going #inconsistency #know #never

Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

#cured #evils #fighting #goals #ignorance

[On technology:] A realm of intimate, personal power is developing -- power of the individual to conduct his own education, find his own inspiration, shape his own environment, and share his adventure with whoever is interested. ↗

— Stewart Brand

#education

He's about as predictable as a Wasp on speed. ↗

— Sid Waddell

#predictable #speed #wasp

I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent. ↗

— Taylor Hackford

#believe #great #great attitude #i #predict

Democrats can neither control nor predict whether our GOP counterparts are really ready to play chicken with the U.S. economy. But we can assure the American people that our party takes the nation's faith and credit seriously. ↗

— Peter Welch

#american people #assure #chicken #control #counterparts

About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power. ↗

— Sidney Altman

#book #elegance #elements #first #first time

And it's interesting, when you look at the predictions made during the peak of the boom in the 1990s, about e-commerce, or internet traffic, or broadband adoption, or internet advertising, they were all right - they were just wrong in time. ↗

— Chris Anderson

#adoption #advertising #boom #broadband #during