We really can't forecast all that well, and yet we pretend that we can, but we really can't.

- Alan Greenspan

If you have to forecast, forecast often.

- Edgar Fiedler

The population forecast for the United States in 1970 is 170 million. The population forecast for Russia alone in 1970 is 251 million. The implications are clear.

- Emanuel Celler

Weather forecast for tonight: dark.

- George Carlin

The rise in world oil prices has been larger than anyone forecast.

- George Osborne

It's really not a good idea to forecast or double guess the fates; you will always be fooled.

- Iman

No one can forecast the economy with certainty.

- Jamie Dimon

The most reliable way to forecast the future is to try to understand the present.

- John Naisbitt

The key to making a good forecast is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information.

- Nate Silver

You don't want to influence the same system you are trying to forecast.

- Nate Silver

As a species, I think we have no choice but to try and forecast pandemics.

- Nathan Wolfe

Most American writers don't get asked their opinion on current affairs, whereas in Europe and England, we still do. There are writers here who are the most sophisticated commentators, but they're not asked. Like Don DeLillo, who sort of forecast most of the modern world before it happened.

- Salman Rushdie

My one remaining professional ambition is to read the shipping forecast. I live in hope.

- Samuel West

The future will be less predictable, forecast rises will shrink, company lifetimes will shrink, new entrants will proliferate and it's going to just get more unpredictable.

- Steve Jurvetson

Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation?

- Thomas Sowell