Basins of attraction, of self organization, show up as well in our complex social environment, in human organizations. Here again, while we cannot predict the result of any given input, we can say that it will likely fall within one of several areas.
Kevin Kelly

But I'd rather not predict. I'd rather affect.
James Carville

Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.
Ian Hacking

History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.
Johan Huizinga

However, the models also predict unambiguously that the atmosphere is warming faster than the surface of the earth; but all the available observational data unambiguously shows the opposite!
David Douglass

I can never predict what's going to happen.
Bryan Ferry

I don't really try to predict what can and will happen with things. Sometimes you think something's gonna be a huge success, and it isn't. And sometimes you pay no attention to something whatsoever, and God just makes it into everything.
Donna Summer

I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction.
David Eddings

I like a book better if I can't predict what's going to happen.
Rudy Rucker

I never predict anything, and I never will.
Paul Gascoigne

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
Thomas Jefferson

I predict one of these two teams will win the Super Bowl.
Gilbert Gottfried

I predict that many teams will go out of business and the size of the leagues will be greatly reduced.
Will McDonough

I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.
Taylor Hackford

I think it is quite dangerous for an organisation to think they can predict where they are going to need leadership. It needs to be something that people are willing to assume if it feels relevant, given the context of any situation.
Margaret J. Wheatley

I won't predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.
Michael Phelps

I'm not going to take this defeatist attitude and listen to all this crap any more from all these people who have nothing except doomsday to predict.
Carroll Shelby

I've never been able to predict the future of anything.
Bob Edwards

If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success.
Max Born

If I know you're very good in music, I can predict with just about zero accuracy whether you're going to be good or bad in other things.
Howard Gardner