Quotes About Scenarios

As my manager says, 'These are wonderful problems.'

But, without meaning to exactly, one still tends to conjure up scary scenarios, their pathos or salvation, as if one could endure a trauma before it occurred, in small manageable doses, as a sort of inoculation. Are there homeopathic degrees of anguish?

Happily for the Allies, none of those scenarios became reality. As Dean Acheson aptly put it, "At last our enemies, with unparalleled stupidity, resolved our dilemmas, clarified our doubts and uncertainties, and united our people for the long, hard course that the national interest required.

Probably the greatest intellectual accomplishment in adolescence is the ability to think hypothetically, to engage in "if/ then" thinking. "If I blow off my math test, then I may fail the course and have to go to summer school." All of a sudden, blowing off the math test is about a whole set of consequences.

Two if's scarce make one possibility.

The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontrollable. It also expresses an imaginative complicity with disaster.

Inheritance is best at coding extensions based on direct customization (like our Manager specialization of Person). Composition is well suited to scenarios where multiple objects are aggregated into a whole and directed by a controller layer class. Inheritance passes calls up to reuse, and composition passes down to delegate.

Higher energy costs are unavoidable in all future scenarios.

The memories of previous failures and the images of feared future scenarios that we bring to mind in the process add their own twist to the spiral of worsening mood.

The idea of a secret that will be revealed always results in one of two scenarios: death and destruction, or self-discovery and recovery beyond our wildest dreams of unification. And in the greatest of sagas, both at the same time.

The title of the report is "Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development." Before we go there, some research is in order.

We endure a whole storm of illusions within ourselves. A storm born of fear and despair. Like an explosion leading into hyperspace where hundreds of millions of fear scenarios are played. It's like cinema, and you are a screenwriter who endures it as if wears virtual glasses.

Philosophy is the seed or thought that allows us to think and examine several scenarios of our environment.

As a rule it is circumstances that make men.

The greenhouse effect never did achieve the worst-case scenarios that the more evangelical environmentalists claimed it would.