He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.
If you have to forecast forecast often.
The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went...
Though every legal task demands this skill it is especially important in the effort to frame public policy in a way that is properly responsive to human needs and predicaments. The question is always: How will the general rule work in practice?