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quotes[0]='Those who have knowledge, do not predict. Those who predict, do not have knowledge. <i>-Lao Tzu, 6th Century BC Chinese Poet </i>'

quotes[1]='I have seen the future and it is very much like the present, only longer. <i>-Kehlog Albran, The Profit </i>'

quotes[2]='Prediction is very difficult, especially if it is about the future. <i>-Nils Bohr, Nobel laureate in Physics </i>'

quotes[3]='The best qualification of a prophet is to have a good memory. <i>-Marquis of Halifax</i>'

quotes[4]='Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them. <i>-Leo Rosten in Rome was not Burned in a Day </i>'

quotes[5]='An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination. <i>-After Andrew Lang </i>'

quotes[6]='Those who attempt to make forecasts of steel consumption and production are inevitably exposed to two criticisms in a sense contradictory. On the one hand it is argued that they have been prisoners of their mathematics. But without mathematics objective and scientific estimates are impossible. On the other, it is suggested that the forecasters have built up an elaborate superstructure designed to prove conclusions established in advance. The reader must judge for himself whether a proper course has been steered between the Scylla of undue reliance on the iron logic of mathematics and the Charybdis of preconceived views. <i>-Economic Commission for Europe</i>'

quotes[7]='An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday did not happen today. <i>-Evan Esar </i>'

quotes[8]='If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me. <i>-William Shakespeare </i>'

quotes[9]='A good forecaster is not smarter than everyone else, he merely has his ignorance better organised. <i>-Anonymous </i>'

quotes[10]='My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there. <i>-C.F. Kettering </i>'

quotes[11]='Results? Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that will not work. <i>-Thomas Alva Edison</i>'

quotes[12]='To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect. <i>-Oscar Wilde </i>'

quotes[13]='This is the first age that has ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one. <i>-Arthur C. Clarke </i>'

quotes[14]='The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going. <i>-Napoleon Hill</i>'

quotes[15]=' always avoid prophesying beforehand because it is much better to prophesy after the event has already taken place. <i>-Winston Churchill </i>'

quotes[16]='Herbert Hoover, it has been said, called in the best economists in the country and took the advice of none of them; Franklin Roosevelt called in the worst economists and took the advice of all of them. <i>-William Harlan Hale</i>'

quotes[17]='Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks. <i>-Mark Twain </i>'

quotes[18]='Forecasting is the art of saying what will happen, and then explaining why it did not!  <i>-Anonymous </i>'

quotes[19]='Wall Street indices predicted nine out of the last five recessions!  <i>-Paul A. Samuelson </i>'

quotes[20]='He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass. <i>-Edgar R. Fiedler </i>'

quotes[21]='The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers. <i>-Edgar R. Fiedler </i>'

quotes[22]='The basic facts are straightforward, but interpretations vary. <i>-Thomas Hazlett</i>'

quotes[23]='If you have to forecast, forecast often. <i>-Edgar R. Fiedler </i>'

quotes[24]='It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all. <i>-Henri Poincare </i>'

quotes[25]='Page after page of professional economic journals are filled with mathematical formulas leading the reader from sets of more or less plausible but entirely arbitrary assumptions to precisely stated but irrelevant theoretical conclusions. <i>-Wassily Leontief</i>'

quotes[26]='It is said that the present is pregnant with the future. <i>-Voltaire </i>'

quotes[27]='Forecasting future events is often like searching for a black cat in an unlit room, that may not even be there. <i>-Steve Davidson </i>'

quotes[28]='...even professors of economics, to say nothing of the public, do not generally have scientific minds. <i>-Frank H. Knight</i>'

quotes[29]='...since it is known that we generally work with false models and since the power of statistical tests increases with sample size, a statistical test can be relied on in virtually every application to reject the restricted model (hypothesis) for a large enough sample. <i>-Judge, Griffiths, Hill, and Lee</i>'

quotes[30]='Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters. <i>-Raymond Aron </i>'

quotes[31]='The future is not what it used to be ! <i>-anonymous </i>'

quotes[32]='...course titles and even course descriptions often fail to reveal what is actually taught (much less learned). <i>-F.M. Scherer</i>'

quotes[33]='The discipline of colleges and universities is in general contrived, not for the benefit of the students, but for the interest, or more properly speaking, for the ease of the masters. Its object is, in all cases, to maintain the authority of the master, and whether he neglects or performs his duty, to oblige the students in all cases to behave toward him as if he performed it with the greatest diligence and ability. <i>-Adam Smith</i>'

quotes[34]='It is often said there are two types of forecasts ... lucky or wrong!!!!  <i>-Institute of Operations Management </i>'

quotes[35]='I never think of the future, it comes soon enough. <i>-Albert Einstein </i>'

quotes[36]='All is flux, nothing stays still. <i>-Heraclitus (540 BC - 480 BC)</i>'

quotes[37]='Our subject offers peculiar opportunities for training people to think, and to think with care and consistency. <i>-F.W. Taussig</i>'

quotes[38]='It is however always important to remember that the ability to see things in their correct perspective may be, and often is, divorced from the ability to reason correctly and vice versa. That is why a man may be a very good theorist and yet talk absolute nonsense. <i>-Joseph A. Schumpeter</i>'

quotes[39]='A pessimist is an optimist with more information. <i>-Anonymous</i>'

quotes[40]='Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. <i>-Gustave Flaubert</i>'

quotes[41]='It is easy to predict a future, impossible to predict the future.<i>-David Donnelly</i>'

quotes[42]='The future cannot be dictated...it must be negotiated.<i>-David Donnelly </i>'

quotes[43]='The trouble with the future is that there are so many of them. <i>-Anonymous</i>'

quotes[44]='Que sera, sera. Whatever will be will be, the future is not ours to see. Que sera, sera. <i>-Doris Day</i>'

quotes[45]='Never make forecasts, especially about the future. <i>-Sam Goldwyn</i>'

quotes[46]='You cannot see the future through a rearview mirror.<i>-Peter Lynch</i>'

quotes[47]='The most risky attitude to adopt towards the future is not to think about it.<i>-Michel Godet</i>'

quotes[48]='No matter how the forecast turns out - there is always another forecaster who knew it would. '  

quotes[49]='The unwritten forecast is always the one that verifies best. <i>  Keating   </i> '

quotes[50]='No two patterns are alike, although someone will remember one just like this that occurred back in 1984.  '

quotes[51]='There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. <i> Ken Olson, president, chairman, and founder of Digital Equipment Corp..,1977 </i>  '

quotes[52]='No matter how far in advance you forecast a significant an event, the media will always call it unexpected.  <i> Keating  </i> '

quotes[53]='Additional newly found data will always screw up a good forecast.   <i> Keating  </i>  '

quotes[54]='If you get a gut feeling about a forecast - it is probably heartburn.     '

quotes[55]='When writing a forecast discussion make it so long that no one will bother to read it.    '

quotes[56]='Remember - all long-range forecasts fall into the realm of make believe stuff.     <i> -Keating </i>     '

quotes[57]='Forecasting is difficult, especially about the future.   <i>Victor Borge.</i>    '

quotes[58]='Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?    <i>H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927. </i>     '

quotes[59]='The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a C, the idea must be feasible.   <i>A Yale University management professor in response to a Fred Smith paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service. (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.) </i>  '

quotes[60]='I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.   <i> Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 </i>  '

quotes[61]='We do not like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.  <i> Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962. </i>  '

quotes[62]='Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.  <i> Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929. </i>  '

quotes[63]='Aeroplanes are interesting toys but of no military value. <i> Marshal Ferdinard Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre. </i>  '

quotes[64]='Everything that can be invented has been invented.    <i> Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, US Office of Patents, 1899. </i>   '

quotes[65]='640K ought to be enough for anybody.    <i> Bill Gates, 1981 </i>  '

quotes[66]='So we went to Atari and said, - Hey, we have got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we will give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we willl come work for you. - And they said, No. - So, then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said - Hey, no way. You have not graduated college yet. <i> Apple Computer Inc.. founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and H-P interested in the Steve Jobs /Steve Wozniak personal computer. </i>  '

quotes[67]='The plural of anecdote... is not data.    <i> Economist Roger Brinner, 2004 </i>   '

quotes[68]='The plural of anecdote... is not data.    <i> Economist Roger Brinner, 2004 </i>   '

quotes[69]='The trouble with weather forecasting is that it is right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it.   <i> Patrick Young, 2004 </i>   '

quotes[70]='The undersigned states that he has no idea what is going to happen in the future, and hereby declares that this prediction is merely a wildly unsupported speculation.    <i> SEC required statement for forecasters proposed by Barry Ritholtz, 2005 </i>   '

quotes[71]='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.     <i> Ian Hacking, 1992 </i>   '

quotes[72]='Forecasting is the art of saying what will happen, and then explaining why it did not!     <i> Anonymous </i>   '

quotes[73]='If we could first know where we are and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do and how to do it.   <i> Abraham Lincoln </i>   '

quotes[74]='I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.  <i> Patrick Henry </i>   '

quotes[75]='Prophecy: the art and practice of selling your credibility for future delivery.    <i> Ambrose Bierce </i>   '

quotes[76]='One should use forecasts ... not believe them.     <i> Hogarth and Makridakis, 1989  </i>   '

quotes[77]='Tell us what the future holds, so that we may know you are gods.   <i>  Isaiah 41:23, 700 B.C.  </i>   '

quotes[78]='No one knows what is coming-who can tell him what will happen after him?   <i>  Ecclesiastes 10:14, 950 B.C.  </i>   '

quotes[79]='It is utterly implausible that a mathematical formula should make the future known to us, and those who think it can would once have believed in witchcraft.  <i> Betrand de Jouvenel, The Art of Conjecture </i>   '

quotes[80]='All is flux, nothing is stationary.   <i> Heroclitus  </i>   '






  
  




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