Quotes About Unanticipated

The public brings our buildings to life, and we try to choreograph a lot of things, but our most successful work functions in unanticipated ways. Like the Blur Building. When little kids got in there, they cried or laughed or ran around. And no matter how much theory we put on top of it, it didn't matter: it worked.

There's nothing I'm doing these days that I ever thought I was gonna do.

Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.

Most things in life come as a surprise.

People rarely notice what they don't expect to see.

unexpectedly get

He was prepared, he thought, for any wonder. The only thing he had never expected was the utterly commonplace.

He was prepared, he thought, for any wonder. The only thing he had never expected was the utterly commonplace. The

Sometimes success comes in ways you don't expect.

Piers was the last person she had expected to see. She had thought never to see him again. And he was unmarried, unbetrothed, unattached.

Annette had kissed me. Who would'a thunk it?

Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them." —Leo Rosten

Were you relieved, maybe just a little, when they lifted you up (you weighed almost nothing by then) and shoved you into the oven? Did it seem unanticipated but right, somehow - did it strike you as satisfying, as a fate finally realized - when they slammed the door behind you?

A woman's mind is her most precious weapon. It must not be employed clumsily or prematurely. Much like the aforementioned knife in the back, a clever gibe is most effective when it is unanticipated.

Feathers. Bloody hell, he hadn't seen that one coming when he'd considered his future. Like a goddamn chicken.

No, in an existence bound with true meaning and purpose, oblivion should ever arrive unexpected, unanticipated and unseen. One moment racing full tilt, the next, gone.

predictably unpredictable

I remember I was a dark horse at Miss Universe. No one saw Miss India coming from a mile and suddenly there she was!

Hi, Tony." "I thought I'd gotten rid of him for good," Portenson said in a way that didn't reveal if he was joking or not. "But here he is again, like a bad penny.

If countries were named after the words you first hear when you go there, England would have to be called "Damn It".

The simpler, the better. Complications lead to multiplicative chains of unanticipated effects.

bounded rationality: we cannot possibly measure and assess everything as if we were a computer; we therefore produce, under evolutionary pressures, some shortcuts and distortions. Our knowledge of the world is fundamentally incomplete, so we need to avoid getting into unanticipated trouble. And even if our knowledge of the world were complete, it would still be computationally near-impossible to produce a precise, unbiased understanding of reality.

the long-term harm is largely unaccounted for.

The worst thing a general can ever say is, Hell, I never expected that.