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Quotes About Ambiguity

startup is a human institution designed to create a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty.
~ Eric Ries
definition of a startup: a human institution designed to create new products and services under conditions of extreme uncertainty.
~ Eric Ries
But why tell me?" Fireheart repeated. "Perhaps after so long I want a cat to know the truth," meowed Bluestar with a slight frown. "I think you of all cats might understand, Fireheart. Sometimes there are no right choices.
~ Erin Hunter
Neither of them is right. And neither of them is wrong. Prophecies are strange things. Their words are never clear.
~ Erin Hunter
Is this the beginning of the end?
~ Erin Hunter
You will know when the time comes," Cloudstar replied. Could you be any more vague? Firestar thought irritably.
~ Erin Hunter
Why can't StarClan tell us something clearly, instead of talking in riddles?
~ Erin Hunter
Hollypaw cut him off. "No cat must know! Not when we don't know exactly what the prophecy means.
~ Erin Hunter
dreams, but so could he. That didn't mean he knew the answer to everything.
~ Erin Hunter
Graywhatsit was
~ Erin Hunter
don't know what it is?
~ Erin Hunter
The best questions are the ones that create the most uncertainty.
~ Beau Lotto
another story leave it dark no the same story not two stories leave it dark all the same like the rest a little darker a few words all the same a few old words like for the rest stop panting let it stop
~ beckett samuel ii
We may reason on to our heart's content, the fog won't lift.
~ beckett samuel iv
One might as well attempt to calculate mathematically the contingent forms of the tinkling bits of glass in a kaleidoscope as to look through the tube of the future and foretell its pattern.
~ beecher henry ward x
I have never met a vampire personally, but I don't know what might happen tomorrow.
~ Bela Lugosi
Oh! let us never, never doubt What nobody is sure about!
~ belloc hilaire iii
When I'm considering this I find it helpful to quote the wisdom of my father, who once told me, "Who knows why the fuck anything happens?
~ Ben Aaronovitch
Zach Palmer, who was half human and half—we weren't really sure what, including the possibility that the other half might be human as well.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
A single message, no matter how apparently unambiguous, can mean more than one thing. I'm counting on it.
~ Ben Ehrenreich
How does anyone ever know anything—the past is a fog that breathes out ghost after ghost, the present a freeway thunder run at 90 mph, which makes the future the ultimate black hole of futile speculation.
~ Ben Fountain
I'll give you another chance," he says. "The next time it'll be jail. Keep this in mind. If you're brought in again, no excuses will go. Call the next case." Now one can follow Fanny. She walks out of the courtroom. The street swallows her. Nobody in the crowds knows what has happened. Fanny is anybody now. Still, one may follow. Perhaps something will reveal itself, something will add an illuminating touch to the incident of the courtroom.
~ Ben Hecht
Fleming is charming65 to be with, but would sell his own grandmother. I like him a lot.
~ Ben Macintyre
plausible deniability.
~ Ben Macintyre