Predicting Quotes

In 2004, just 54% of contractors were predicting their earnings to rise, while 20% were predicting a fall in earnings, compared to only 3% now. For the last few years public sector IT spending has been a substitute for subdued spending in the private sector - but 2006 is set to be a year of strong growth across the board.

I violated the Noah rule: Predicting rain doesn`t count; building arks does.

It`s a total Cinderella story because it`s still gay cowboys. Try that at a pitch meeting. Try predicting to anyone (before the movie`s release) that it would sweep all the nominations. One of the reasons the movie`s surprising everyone is that they put it in a box, and it doesn`t belong there.

I come back to the same thing: We`ve got the greatest pipeline in the company`s history in the next 12 months, and we`ve had the most amazing financial results possible over the last five years, and we`re predicting being back at double-digit revenue growth in fiscal year `06.

We are still on standby, ... With the storm this close off the coast, we have no choice. Forecasters are predicting it will head off to the northeast, but if it turns our way we will have very little time to notify residents.

As soon as they start predicting a storm, people call and it seems that these storms are coming one after the other.

Unfortunately, we are continuing the bad news by predicting above-average activity for September and October.

(Most people are aware the National Weather Service in Jacksonville, Fla., is forecasting an above-normal storm season, predicting 11 or more tropical storms and hurricanes in the Florida area between June and November. Better yet, the Weather Service office has its own concrete shelter built inside the office.) We believe in the need to have a safe building, ... We have a safe room that`s practically a vault -- it`s reinforced with 2 feet of concrete all the way around.

I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.

I`m not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.

It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.