Fortunately, as investor Vinod Khosla is fond of saying (about himself and others) : "Experts are usually wrong" when it comes to forecasting the future.

庆幸的是，如投资人Vinod Khosla喜欢的一句箴言所说：在预测未来时“专家们经常是错的”。

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By that time, though, analysts' one chance to publicly question executives on the quarterly conference call has passed and markets have moved on to forecasting the next quarter.

然而到那个时候，分析师们在季度电话会议上公开质询公司管理层的机会已经过去，市场已经开始对下一财季进行预测了。

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Many researchers are devoted to forecasting of global climate change.

许多研究人员致力于全球气候变迁的预测。

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"You know,forecasting's become a very hazardous business so I don't want to commit myself too much.

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"So while we're not really forecasting another meltdown, we're more in the correction camp, you certainly have to warn investors that it is a possibility, we could be in for maybe a slightly smaller version of the roller coaster that we went through in 2008."

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The competitions range from predicting the progression of HIV to forecasting travel times on Autralian freeways.

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When it comes to forecasting models, the impact of a euro break-up simply "will not compute".

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Even a cursory glance at Exhibit 4 reveals that economists are simply useless when it comes to forecasting.

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