Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.

“Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future”.

It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.

It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.

Predictions are hard, especially of the future

Predicting the future is a hopeless, thankless task, with ridicule to begin with and, all too often, scorn to end with.

I think it foolhardy to predict the absolute limits of human endurance.

Your brain is far too complex and mercurial for its behavior to be predicted in any but the broadest outlines or for any but the shortest distances in the future.

It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future

The uncertainty of the future is inescapable, one must think about it and arrive at plans for action. A statement attributed to a number of thinkers is, "Prediction is very difficult, especially of the future." Postdiction, knowing what went on in the past, is also difficult. The past, however, is our basis for understanding the future.

Humans sometimes make surprising choices, and human history is full of uncertainties.

I’m very skeptical about General AI anytime in my lifetime.

There is a danger of expecting the results of the future to be predicted from the past.

Prediction is not the same thing as understanding, but in the absence of prediction, we can certainly doubt understanding.