One can't predict the weather more than a few days in advance.
Maps help us in tracking our cabs - if they're idle, headed for a booking, or in the midst of a trip. With custom systems built atop maps using available APIs, we are able to manage our inventory extremely well, predict ETAs for customers, and optimally allocate the nearest cab to a booking request.
If that enabled us to predict the succeeding situation with the same approximation, that is all we require, and we should say that the phenomenon had been predicted, that it is governed by the laws.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
It is better to predict dramatic things that don't happen than boring things that do.
I predict after this whole thing is over, what we'll remember about the failed candidacy of Donald Trump is, 'You're fired.'
You want the match to be like a roller coaster, so you can't predict it.
Models used to describe and predict inflation commonly distinguish between changes in food and energy prices - which enter into total inflation - and movements in the prices of other goods and services - that is, core inflation.
I never predict freight rates; nobody can do that.
I predict that there are hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of undiscovered ancient sites across the globe. The only way to map them and locate them quickly is from satellites.
Science fiction writers didn't predict the fade-out of NASA's manned space operations, and they weren't prepared with alternative routes to space when that decline became undeniable.
Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.
The false prophets of Communism predict a utopian society.
You can predict all you want, but everybody knows what predictions get you.