#prediction

As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#elite #elitism #elitist #meritocracy #politics

A mathematician is an individual who believes that prophesying that his dog will die if he deprives it of food constitutes a prediction. ↗

— Bill Gaede

#gaede #god #mathematics #peer-review #physics

The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears. ↗

— Bill Vaughan

#disappears #like #most #other #prediction

Agency by agency, we frequently have lost a bit of ground, at least to inflation-but had it not been for the efforts we've made to educate people about the importance of science, technology and advanced education, those predictions very well might have come true. ↗

— Charles Vest

#advanced #agency #been #bit #come

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

A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art. ↗

— Wendy Carlos

#best #blend #heart #nice #prediction

My predictions are notably inaccurate. ↗

— Robert Caro

#notably #predictions

I figure lots of predictions is best. People will forget the ones I get wrong and marvel over the rest. ↗

— Alan Cox

#figure #forget #get #i #lots

The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#experience #hypothesis #only #prediction #relevant

Because of recent improvements in the accuracy of theoretical predictions based on large scale ab initio quantum mechanical calculations, meaningful comparisons between theoretical and experimental findings have become possible. ↗

— Yuan T. Lee

#based #because #become #between #calculations