Quotes About Chaos

Newt looked at the Cranks, then back at Thomas. "It comes and goes, man. I can't explain it. Sometimes I can't control myself, barely know what I'm doing. But usually it's just like an itch in my brain, throwing everything o?-kilter just enough to bother me— make me angry.

You have to conclude that your country has run amuck, that the people responsible are insane, that you can not trust your leaders, your President, your general, your parents, your friends, your neighbors, you co-workers, your police, your town, your state, your country, anymore because it is liable to turn upon you for no reason at all, except that for its own security it needs a scapegoat, any scapegoat including you, and there is no appeal possible.

For what,' I asked, 'is wrong with a steady-state economy?' Their response could almost be described as one of shock-horror, as if I had uttered an obscenity. One of them – my friend, Sydney Epton – said, 'Jim, you must understand that without growth there would be utter chaos; the whole system of modern economics is dependent on growth.' Taken literally, sustainable development simply means growth.

Why should jokes and metaphors give such pleasure? Because we can't stand very much ambiguity. Cognitive dissonance makes us uneasy, and for good reason-survival depends on making the world as predictable as possible. So when we figure something out, when we impose order on what seems chaotic, we heave a psychological sigh of relief.

Tiny differences in input could quickly become overwhelming differences in output…. In weather, for example, this translates into what is only half-jokingly known as the Butterfly Effect—the notion that a butterfly stirring the air today in Peking can transform storm systems next month in New York.

Of all the possible pathways of disorder, nature favors just a few.

It sometimes seems as if curbing entropy is our quixotic purpose in this universe.

The spot is a self-organizing system, created and regulated by the same nonlinear twists that create the unpredictable turmoil around it. It is stable chaos.

Louisiana is a fresh-air mental asylum.

Triumphing over nature means better lives for sentients, but dominance is sustained only by bringing order to chaos and establishing law where none exists.

because everyone's life is full of absurdity, improbability, and general craziness.

China is chaotic and complex, requiring a more dictatorial management structure that doesn't have room for democracy or discussion.

One small boy was all it took to upset the universe

Mira chico, aparta esa pistola. Las balas no me detienen, las navajas no me hieren... Mira...¡Mírame! Soy el error del piloto, soy la malformación del feto, soy el cromosoma aleatorio... soy la más completa y total locura... soy el miedo...

It didn't look like a meeting of Boy Scout Troop #67, if you know what I mean. Yeesh, teenagers.

New York has collapsed.

File cabinets were closed with determined thuds like mortar rounds going off, and the rapid chatter of typewriter keys sounded like machine guns strafing the paper into submission.

The space between the next two buildings was crowded with four torn bodies, limbs shredded from torsos, intestines strewn like party streamers. Suddenly one of the torsos jerked into the darkened alley beyond, dragged by something hidden in shadow.

commotion and flurry.

There's a compounding and unraveling chaos that is perpetually in motion in the Dark Web's toxic underbelly.

Keep writing. Get to the end. Don't allow yourself to abandon the project. You must finish what you write. But what, you ask, if I have a chaotic mess at the end? Celebrate. This is the way it usually is, even for veteran novelists.

Drug addicts are so funny that way. Just spinning around, lost in their own little world. Doing so much, accomplishing so little.

Drug addicts are so funny that way. Just spinning around, lost in their own little world. Doing so much, accomplishing so little. How sad.

There are times when the world slips out of control. It's like an accident that is happening too quickly , and you can't stop it, you can't think about it, you have no choice but to lean back and watch as everything changes forever.