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In 2004, just 54% of contractors were predicting their earnings to rise, while 20% were predicting a fall in earnings, compared to only 3% now. For the last few years public sector IT spending has been a substitute for subdued spending in the private sector - but 2006 is set to be a year of strong growth across the board.

I think our kids are confident. They look forward to playing and they think they can win. That's not cocky at all. We're not predicting victory by any means, but I think we'll be confident. This will be the best team we play all year long by far, so we'll know our strengths and weaknesses.

I stopped predicting the future a long time ago.

I am predicting steady and substantial growth each year. It's a niche product, but there are many niche applications out there. We're just scratching the surface.

I was not predicting the future, I was trying to prevent it.

This has limited impact in predicting the potential impact of the limit in the future,

The cynics were predicting that by taking a year off, which obviously is something nobody wanted to do, we would have destroyed our following and our fans would never come back,

The index suggests that the consensus economic forecasts predicting slower growth for the first half of 1999 will be wrong again. We look for growth in Gross Domestic Product to keep running above 3 percent until at least mid-year.

You've got some pretty learned people right now predicting a Fed pause.

The economy is showing signs of a broader recovery. I'm predicting rates will be unchanged for the rest of the year. There's a likelihood the next move may be up.

The country's 7.25% short term rates - the highest in the industrialized world - are choking economic demand with many analysts now predicting the possibility of a recession in 2006.

The challenge of predicting terrorism is that unlike fraud, we don't have the same volume of historical data to learn from. Compounding this is the fact that terrorists are constantly changing their methods and do their best to avoid leaving any digital footprints in the first place.

The market is very positive right now. We have strong earnings, lower oil prices, a weak yen and the Bank of Japan predicting deflation is at a near end. It's like the icing on the cake for the stock market.

Charts are great for predicting the past.

A prediction about the direction of the stock market tells you nothing about where stocks are headed, but a whole lot about the person doing the predicting.