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We really can't forecast all that well, and yet we pretend that we can, but we really can't.

~Alan Greenspan

Topics: Forecast Pretend Really Well

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People don't realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of what causes what, but that's as far as we go. And I've had a very successful career as a forecaster, starting in 1948 forward. The number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that.

~Alan Greenspan

Topics: Account As Far As Awesome Cannot Career Causes Enough Far Forecast Forward Future Go Had Just Large Made Mistakes Number People Realize Starting Successful Very We Cannot

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We futurists have a magic button. We follow every statement about a failed forecast with 'yet.'

~Alvin Toffler

Topics: About Button Every Failed Follow Forecast Magic Statement

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Whenever I see a forecast written out to two decimal places, I cannot help but wonder if there is a misunderstanding of the limitations of the data, and an illusion of precision.

~Barry Ritholtz

Topics: Cannot Data Forecast Help Illusion Limitations Misunderstanding Out Places Precision See Two Whenever Wonder Written I See

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In 2009, it was forecast that the number of single-person households would increase by two million in 10 years, suggesting that social isolation will only get worse.

~Bee Wilson

Topics: Forecast Get Households Increase Isolation Million Number Only Social Suggesting Two Will Worse Would Years

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I'll admit that I'm not quite certain how to sum up an entire year in music anymore; not when music has become so temporal, so specific and personal, as if we each have our own weather system and what we listen to is our individual forecast.

~Carrie Brownstein

Topics: Admit Anymore Become Certain Each Entire Forecast How Individual Listen Music Our Own Personal Quite Specific Sum System Temporal Up Weather Year

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Workers and jobs are naturally heterogeneous, and the quality of their interaction when paired is difficult to forecast.

~David Autor

Topics: Difficult Forecast Interaction Jobs Naturally Quality Workers

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If you have to forecast, forecast often.

~Edgar Fiedler

Topics: Forecast Often You

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Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.

~Edmund Hillary

Topics: About Been Casual Climbing Disaster Everest Forecast Getting Many People Times Too

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The population forecast for the United States in 1970 is 170 million. The population forecast for Russia alone in 1970 is 251 million. The implications are clear.

~Emanuel Celler

Topics: Alone Clear Forecast Implications Million Population Russia States United United States

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