contempt for forecasting

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio [1571-1610], The Fortune-Teller, c.1598-1599.

"We have always been suckers for those who tell us about the future. In this picture the fortune-teller is stealing the victim's ring."

- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan, p.164

An earlier reference to Caravaggio here.