#predict

Let's cut to the chase, the sharia controversy. I don't think I, or my colleagues, predicted just how enormous the reaction would be. I failed to find the right words. I succeeded in confusing people. I've made mistakes - that's probably one of them. ↗

— Rowan Williams

#colleagues #confusing #controversy #cut #enormous

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen. ↗

— Earl Wilson

#expert #happen #know #predicted #things

If Apple were to grow the iPod into a cell phone with a web browser, Microsoft would be in big trouble. ↗

— Paul Graham

#prediction #age

The prophets, who were very many, proclaim and declare the one God; for, being filled with the inspiration of the one God, they predicted things to come, with agreeing and harmonious voice. ↗

— Lactantius

#being #come #declare #filled #god

The Olympics are always a special competition, it is very difficult to predict what will happen. ↗

— Sergei Bubka

#competition #difficult #happen #olympics #predict

And that format was - we'd been using that format, I guess, since the late '70s, and it was starting to get very predictable. In other words, certain songs would surface in the same points in the set every so often; it was like rotation. ↗

— Phil Lesh

#certain #every #format #get #guess

I can't predict the future and I don't have respect for people who try to. ↗

— Jackie Mason

#i #people #predict #respect #try

There is no justifiable prediction about how the hypothesis will hold up in the future; its degree of corroboration simply is a historical statement describing how severely the hypothesis has been tested in the past. ↗

— Robert Nozick

#been #degree #describing #future #historical

The predictable thing about 'The Good Wife' is how unpredictable 'The Good Wife' is. ↗

— Archie Panjabi

#good #good wife #how #predictable #thing

The Commonwealth has had consistently bad press. It was originally seen as a kind of hangover empire. People have long predicted its demise. ↗

— Ben Pimlott

#bad press #commonwealth #consistently #demise #empire