Forecasting quote

[Barry Fetter]

David Baggaley <bagg...@raven.wqt.on.doe.ca.remove.this> wrote:

>"Forecasting is difficult - especially the future."

>Who said this? Was it Stalin?

1465 The art of prophecy is very difficult, especially with
respect to the future.

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

1441 Forecasting: To observe that which has passed,
and guess it will happen again.

Elbert Hubbard (1859-1915)

1453 The best prophet is common sense.

Euripides (B.C. 480-406)

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[Lewis]

David Baggaley wrote:
>
> "Forecasting is difficult - especially the future."
>
> Who said this? Was it Stalin?

Sounds like something Casey Stengel might have said.

[David Baggaley]

"Forecasting is difficult - especially the future."

Who said this? Was it Stalin?

--
Dave Baggaley, RCTB, Thunder Bay, Ontario
mailto:bagg...@raven.wqt.on.doe.ca.remove.this

[Bob Powell]

Lewis wrote:

>
> David Baggaley wrote:
> >
> > "Forecasting is difficult - especially the future."
> >
> > Who said this? Was it Stalin?
>

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It may be a corruption of a comment made by a prominent Russian
journalist in an NPR interview in about 1990, when the Soviet Union was
breaking up and the Russian press was gaining some autonomy for the first
time in history. The man, an editor of either Pravda or Izvestiya, said,

"You should not be so hard on us for not being
able to forecast the future. In Russia, it is
only recently that we have even been able to
forecast the past."

Cheers,

Bob
"I'm so mad I'd write a letter to the editor
if I could only write and he could only read!"
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