“Even better, anything that follows a Gaussian distribution will have an average and a standard deviation, and you can use those to predict the future.”
Lazlo Bock, from WORK RULES.
Something about the powerful simplicity of applied mathematics gave me pause. To predict the future; a pursuit of all mankind.
Simon Ouderkirk 
I predict (without math) that your readers who want to know how to predict the future will read Work Rules by Lazlo Bock!
I’m leaving millions of dollars of potential affiliate link revenue on the table! What a fool I am.