Prediction

For a list of failed predictions, see incorrect predictions.

A prediction or forecast is a statement about the way things will happen in the future.

Sourced

• ...if you make a great number of predictions, the ones that were wrong will soon be forgotten, and the ones that turn out to be true will make you famous.

  Malcolm Gladwell (2007-11-12). Dangerous Minds: Criminal profiling made easy.. The New Yorker. Retrieved on 2008-01-01.

Disputed

• Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
  • Attributed to Niels Bohr in Teaching and Learning Elementary Social Studies (1970) by Arthur K. Ellis, p. 431
  • The above quote is also attributed to various humourists and the Danish poet Piet Hein: "det er svært at spå - især om fremtiden"
  • It is also attributed to Danish cartoonist Storm P (Robert Storm Petersen).
  • The Danish source, used by Bohr and Petersen, has been traced back to Markus M. Ronner in 1918 by lundskovdk-citater.

See also

• Incorrect predictions
• Prophecy
• Nostradamus