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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

"Honored literary scholar M.H. Abrams continues his labors (of love)". Interview with Linda Grace-Kobas, news.cornell.edu. June 11, 1999.

I've learned that the best political reporters never make predictions!

"Jodi Kantor: 'Barack Obama wouldn't be president without Michelle'". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2012.

It is the ability to make predictions about the future that is the crux of intelligence.

Jeff Hawkins, Sandra Blakeslee (2007). “On Intelligence”, p.6, Macmillan

Predictions are preposterous.

"Everything Bold Is New Again: An Interview with Jackie Mason". Interview with Bernard Chapin, spectator.org. April 18, 2007.

Absolute prediction is completion . . . is death!

Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.234, Penguin

I never said I will stand, I said I hoped to stand. It wasn't a prediction.

"Man of steel" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2002.

My track record is pretty good on predictions.

Ann Coulter (2004). “How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter”, p.199, Crown Forum

I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I’ve relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true.

"Al Gore, ‘Inconvenient Truth’ Author And Global-Warming Expert, Talks About Change". Interview with Leigh Haber, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 29, 2013.