People who forecast simply because "that's my job," knowing pretty well that their forecast is ineffectual, are not what I would call ethical. What they do is no different from repeating lies simply because "it's my job. "
At the moment we are facing a whole collection of difficult to forecast developments from the situation in China and the oil-price crash to the worrying news from some banks in Europe and the US. All of that is linked: Worldwide company debt is high and there is a lot of money in circulation. That is why necessary structural reforms are not being made.
DIAGNOSIS, n. A physician's forecast of disease by the patient's pulse and purse.
We are not, of course, optimistic about our chances of success. Some form of ecocatastrophe, if not thermonuclear war, seems almost certain to overtake us before the end of the century. (The inability to forecast exactly which one - whether plague, famine, the poisoning of the oceans, drastic climatic change, or some disaster entirely unforeseen - is hardly grounds for complacency. )
A research division develops marketing material for its deal makers. We have no policy position. If you have a policy position you can't possibly forecast.
It's impossible for us to forecast what's going to happen ten years from now and make a decision today to say what we're going to do.
Champions know that success is inevitable, that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. They know that the best way to forecast the future is to create it.
The rise in world oil prices has been larger than anyone forecast.
All right, kids. We’re going to a party where they don’t like us very much. Everyone know what they’re doing? (Sin) Not a clue, but I think certain death and dismemberment is in my forecast, followed by a light rain of guys and flayed skin. (Kish)
The nature of the new world system was not so different from the old. It was for the moment more stable, but a reasonable forecast would be that Africa in particular had a century of border wars ahead of it.
The future is not to be forecast, but created.
Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.
The most important thing is to forecast where customers are moving, and be in front of them.
If you have to forecast, forecast often.
Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer.
It is not for us to forecast the future, but to shape it.
I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.
Pundits forecast not because they know, but because they are asked.
I believe is that we can forecast the "changing landscape of context," and thus get insight into when we are entering the danger zone of an X-event.
Weather forecast for tonight: dark.
