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

“Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. Gods speak, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith.”

“I think predictability has become the rule and I'm completely the opposite -- I like spectators to be disturbed.”

“No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.”

“The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product.”

“Predictions of the future are never anything but projections of present automatic processes and procedures, that is, of occurrences that are likely to come to pass if men do not act and if nothing unexpected happens; every action, for better or worse, and every accident necessarily destroys the whole pattern in whose frame the prediction moves and where it finds its evidence.”

“Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.”

“An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field.”

“The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.”

“If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.”

“There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.”

“Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true.”