Quotes About Outcome

When we use machines to achieve whatever it is we desire, we cannot have what we desire until we have finished with the machine, until we can rid ourselves of the mechanical means of reaching our intended outcome. The goal of technology is therefore to eliminate itself, to become silent, invisible, carefree.

The outcome of a finite game is the past waiting to happen. Whoever plays toward a certain outcome desires a particular past. By competing for a future prize, finite players compete for a prized past.

Don, a CPA, kept a log of the first 100 horses that had been touted by insiders as ready to win and absolutely good things. Exactly six had won. We could have done as well by consulting a table of random numbers.

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

if bad can sometimes come from good actions—? where does it ever say, anywhere, that only bad can come from bad actions? Maybe sometimes—the wrong way is the right way? You can take the wrong path and it still comes out where you want to be? Or, spin it another way, sometimes you can do everything wrong and it still turns out to be right?

But I think maybe it's more like a column of figures where you add two numbers wrong at the start, and it throws the total. If you trace it back, you can see the mistake – the point where you would have had a different outcome.

No siempre se saca el bien de las buenas obras ni el mal de las malas obras. Ni siquiera los sabios y los buenos pueden ver la finalidad de todas sus acciones.

What if - is more complicated than that? What if maybe opposite is true as well? Because, if bad can sometimes come from good actions-? Where does it say, anywhere, that only bad can come from bad actions? Maybe soemtimes-the wrong way is the right way? You can take the wrong path and it still comes out where you want to be? Or spin it another way, soemtiems you can do everything wrong and it still turns out to be right?

Before any outcome was made public, the radicals had worked themselves into "a fury of rage," certain that the president "was about to give up the political fruits which had been already gathered

Too late, too late, too late; it had happened.

If I had killed you, none of this would have happened.' 'I thought you would realize it sooner or later,' Lymond said.

man had blandly abstained. He had been right: it would have lost him money. But not in Scotland

Predicting the future is a mug's game, but any game is improved when you can actually keep the score.

He waited and waited for another accident to happen. The trouble with trying to make the right accident happen is that it won't. That is not what "accident" means. The accident that eventually occurred was not what he had planned at all.

Anything that happens, happens. Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen.

game theory, was called the "ultimatum game.

Do not count your chickens before they are .

Evil wishes, like chickens, come home to roost.

Avoid a remedy that is worse than the disease.

Harm seek, harm find.

Do nothing without regard to the consequences.

The least outlay is not always the greatest gain.

It is not with saying, Honey, Honey, that sweetness will come into the mouth.

The expected has happened, and when the expected happens, it always causes me emotion.