Quotes About Chaos

The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.

To better understand why you need a personal computer, let's take a look at the pathetic mess you call your life.

You could say that my life's a mess. But, I'm still looking pretty in this dress.

The longing for order is at the same time a longing for death, because life is an incessant disruption of order.

Chaos breeds life; Order creates habit.

I smell blood and an era of prominent madmen.

Life is a big fat gigantic stinking mess, that's the beauty of it, too.

Life sucks order from a sea of disorder.

One day can make your life. One day can ruin your life. All life is, is four or five days that change everything.

Life is a long headache in a noisy street.

I have to get my life back on track. Order as an antidote to chaos. Calm after the storm.

Arbitrary power is but the first natural step from anarchy, or the savage life.

How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.

There's no demonstrable link between hoarding and early material deprivation. But there is a link between hoarding and EMOTIONAL deprivation. Many hoarders report being physically or sexually abused as children. My mother was deprived of love, affection, often even the acknowledgment of her existence, to say nothing of the beatings she endured. Her cold and chaotic childhood home was the perfect breeding ground for the mental illness that would end up affecting us all.

Bonfire of the crazies.

We have now left Reason and Sanity Junction. Next stop, Looneyville.

Blind panic might not work all the time, but at least it saved you the stress of planning.

We're going six thousand miles an hour around the sun and nobody's driving this bitch!" said Gary Busey from the woods, where, for his own reasons, he was halfway up an eighty-foot pine tree.

The modern world was a burning bus speeding toward a cliff with a maniac at the wheel. And he was not apart, but complicit, a hyperactive child making yuk-yuks in his seat, keeping everyone laughing, distracting them from certain doom. Faster, faster, no more room to brake.

If it's all so innocent what's the problem? We live in a crumbling multiethnic Ponzi-scheme society requiring a highly policed cultural environment to avoid outright chaos. That's the problem.

Nothing spoils lunch any quicker than a rogue meatball rampaging through your spaghetti.

Agile project leaders help their team balance at the edge of chaos—some structure, but not too much; adequate documentation, but not too much; some up-front architecture work, but not too much. Finding these balance points is the "art" of agile leadership.

Effective project leaders focus on people, product, and process—in that order. Without the right people, nothing gets built. Without a laser focus on product value, extraneous activities creep in. Without a minimum process framework, there can be inefficiency and possibly a little chaos.

I like ideas about the breaking away or overthrowing of established order. I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road towards freedom - external freedom is a way to bring about internal freedom.