Quotes About Chaos

OK, so the guy is cool, but... I mean own up, this is barking time, this is major lunch, this is stool approaching critical mass, this is... this is... total vocabulary failure!

Many had seen it as clinching proof that the whole of known creation had finally gone banana.

Many had seen it as clinching proof that the whole of known creation had finally gone bananas.

the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs.

Yes. I much prefer it here. So much less reputable, so much more fraught.

Oh freddled gruntbuggly... he began. Spasms wracked Ford's body - this was worse than even he'd been prepared for.

Once something actually happens somewhere in something as wildly complicated as the Universe, Kevin knows where it will all end up—where "Kevin" is any random entity that doesn't know nothin' about nothin'.

A team of seven three-foot-high market analysts fell out of it and died, partly of asphyxiation, partly of surprise. Two hundred and thirty-nine thousand lightly fried eggs fell out of it too, materializing in a large wobbly heap on the famine-struck land of Poghril in the Pansel system. The whole Poghril tribe had died out from famine except for one last man who died of cholesterol poisoning some weeks later.

Life is a bowl of chainsaws.

Fire is often the weapon of choice for the insane.

Toward the end Jennie and I had quite a bit of trouble. The inconsistent and chaotic atmosphere in the Archibald home was starting to take its toll. Jennie became very disobedient. She picked up a lot of Mrs. Archibald's ways. Very aggressive.

The whole city was on the verge of panic.

She called it the Catastrophe-Inducing Agency

Time is a storm in which we are all lost

Alas, his efforts to create predictive AI ended in failure. The world is ruled by chaos, and human behavior is too complex.

It's overstated, true, but what it really means is that the tiniest change in the initial conditions of a system can snowball into gigantic effects later on. Wallace

Ah me, thou Destiny, Giver of evil gifts.

Inside, it was clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down.

Where there is murder, anything can happen.

Everything's the matter.

A madman is a very dangerous thing.

Life, [...], whatever else it is, is not reasonable.

All these Ministers insist on coming in and having kittens all over the place.

Lawrence lived in the midst of an artistic disarray that would have driven me quite mad.