nostradamus

Even Nostradamus can't predict which startups will succeed and by how much.

For my money, Hey Nostradamus (his last book, I think) was his best recent work.

These are the people I would listen to, not the Nostradamus pundits.

Google Trends Extrapolation: The Nostradamus of our times.

Maybe a word of caution is needed: Overly generous interpretations is how things like Nostradamus or the hidden code of the bible retain their credibility with parts of the population.

He's Nostradamus but with better marketing.

I'm sure Facebook will make a fascinating topic for anthropologists 50 years from now, but in the meantime I don't need a slew of columnists going all Nostradamus on the subject.

This is why Nostradamus was one of the best at prediction, all of his predictions were incredibly vague when you look at them objectively and can be twisted to foretold almost any major world event.

Other than that loony High-School "Nostradamus", what signs do you see?

I think it's important to note here that Asimov was never a big proponent of the "science fiction author as Nostradamus" theory.

Non-creative works of the same fallacy include the Lincoln/Kennedy comparison, the one book (can't remember the name) that seemed to predict the sinking of the Titanic decades earlier, and the various Nostradamus "predictions".

This is Nostradamus level BS: he predicted the data of the Chinese stock market collapse incorrectly, it then later crashed, and people are giving him credit for "calling it" in hindsight of it actually crashing.

Along with information about recreational drugs, guns, surviving the upcoming nuclear war that was prophesied by Nostradamus, avoiding paying taxes...

Nostradamus would probably give himself an A grade and we know how useful his predications have been.

Yeah, according to Nostradamus, the Knights Templar and the Free Masons have joined forces with ancient Mayan spirits to put a telekinetic shield around the moon.