"[Engineering concerns] the creative application of scientific principles to design or develop structures, machines, a…"

"As with anything else, there are good and bad ways to forecast."

"Psychologist Philip Tetlock (following the lead of Isaiah Berlin), divided the world of political forecasters into he…"

"If you make a great number of predictions, the ones that were wrong will soon be forgotten, and the ones that turn ou…"

"Question 8. Is There a Measurable, Qualitatively Distinctive Prediction of String Theory? String theories can, in pri…"

"I have always believed that people have misjudged the accuracy of economic forecasting... During the 1980s and 1990s,…"

"A forecast can only be based on a diagnosis about current trends if it is to be based on something other than wishful…"

"Dynamic systems studies usually are not designed to predict what will happen. Rather, they're designed to explore wha…"

"I am profoundly skeptical about our abilities to predict the future in general, and human behavior in particular."

"Without precise predictability, control is impotent and almost meaningless. In other words, the lesser the predictabi…"