It's really not a good idea to forecast or double guess the fates; you will always be fooled.
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Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.
If I want to speculate wildly about the future, I have my science fiction. Anybody who tells you they can predict the future is either crazy or lying.
You can never properly predict the future as it really turns out. So you are doing something a little different when you write science fiction. You are trying to take a different perspective on now.
One of my few shortcomings is that I can't predict the future.
You can't know what the future holds, though you might conjecture on it, and if you're psychic, you might venture a guess.
The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future; nay, we see from experience that the forecasts even of the wise almost always turn out false.
Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.
I am incredibly bad at predicting the future; I am only smart enough to observe the present and listen to my intuition about tendencies.
I don't think of myself predicting things. I'm expressing possibilities. Things that could happen. To a large extent it's a question of how badly people want them to.
You can predict all you want, but everybody knows what predictions get you.
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