Let there be a special place in Hell for pundits who make predictions.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Most successful pundits are selected for being opinionated, because it's interesting, and the penalties for incorrect predictions are negligible. You can make predictions, and a year later people won't remember them.
Every day I make predictions that don't come anywhere close to the mark.
Predictions are preposterous.
I've never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.
I've ceased making predictions on things because we'll see how they turn out.
I don't make predictions. I know what I can do, and I try not to think too far ahead.
If I believed in Hell, I'd definitely be going there.
There is no example of someone reading their scripture and saying, 'I have a prediction about the world that no one knows yet, because this gave me insight. Let's go test that prediction,' and have the prediction be correct.
I don't think of myself predicting things. I'm expressing possibilities. Things that could happen. To a large extent it's a question of how badly people want them to.
Prediction is structurally inseparable from the business of punditry: It creates the essential image of indefatigable authority that is punditry's very architecture; it flows from that calcified image, and it provides the substance for the story that keeps getting told about the inevitability of American progress.