{"id":473,"date":"2006-01-23T15:25:18","date_gmt":"2006-01-23T22:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp\/?p=473"},"modified":"2006-01-23T15:25:18","modified_gmt":"2006-01-23T22:25:18","slug":"the-truth-about-analyst-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/the-truth-about-analyst-predictions\/","title":{"rendered":"The truth about analyst predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

You have to love this quote from UK Software and Service maven Richard Holway<\/A>:<\/DIV>
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“During my 40 years in this business I’ve been pretty good at spotting trends. However, I’ve been pretty p**s poor at getting the timing right<\/STRONG>.”<\/DIV>
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Reminds me of one of the mantras of cynical UK reporters:<\/DIV>
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“Paradigm shifts are for people too stupid to spot trends.”<\/STRONG><\/DIV>
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Hat tip to Dennis Howlett<\/A>. <\/DIV>
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You have to love this quote from UK Software and Service maven Richard Holway: “During my 40 years in this business I’ve been pretty good at spotting trends. However, I’ve been pretty p**s poor at getting the timing right.” Reminds me of one of the mantras of cynical UK reporters: “Paradigm shifts are for people too stupid to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wfjh-7D","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}