Nathan Myhrvold Quotes

I'm not a fortune-teller.

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

I'm not in the business of reading tea leaves. I don't have a crystal ball.

Well, with prophecy you got to see what happens.

The pollsters are engaged in an ancient and primitive rite—trying to predict the future.

I do believe in prophecy.

Nobody knows what the future is except for wizards.

Prophecy is what we all have to go by now.

What are prophecies? Don't we hear them every day of the week? And if one comes true there may be seven blind and come to nothing.

I can't predict the future and I don't have respect for people who try to.

I've certainly written a lot of things that have more or less come true. But I don't have a gift for prophecy.

We turn to experts to tell us the future, even though they have not the foggiest idea themselves. It is a practice that goes back thousands of years.

Nobody can be a clairvoyant.

I can't predict the future, nor will I. I'm not a fortune teller.

I used to have an aunty who read tea leaves. She was incredibly accurate.

I'm a fortune teller, but I don't like to know my future.

The art of prophecy is very difficult, especially with respect to the future.

Men, forever tempted to lift the veil of the future-with the aid of computers or horoscopes or the intestines of sacrificial animals-have a worse record to show in these sciences than in almost any scientific endeavor.

I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet.

You can't see the future, there's no such thing. It's all bets. You'll never get the same answer from two seers. But that doesn't mean either of them's wrong.

You don't have to gaze into a crystal ball when you can read an open book.

The good psychic would pick up the phone before it rang. Of course it is possible there was noone on the other line. Once she said "God Bless you" I said, "I didn't sneeze" She looked deep into my eyes and said, "You will, eventually." And damn it if she wasn't right. Two days later I sneezed.

Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. Gods speak, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith.

My whole life was foretold to me. An old Romany gypsy read my fortune.

I am not a prophet.