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Read through the most famous quotes by topic #prediction




We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wrong way.


Nate Silver


#estimates #get #our #predictions #right

Social Security has been effective for 70 years; prior predictions of its demise have been totally overstated.


Grace Napolitano


#demise #effective #overstated #predictions #prior

The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.


Earl Warren


#computers #e-mail #individuality #internet #prediction

I never assume anything. I anticipate the possibilities and allow my imagination to create the future.


Lionel Suggs


#imagination #insight #prediction #imagination

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.


Sigmund Freud


#human-being #life #personality #prediction #reaction

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

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

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


Milton Friedman


#experience #hypothesis #only #prediction #relevant






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