Quotes About Ambiguity

That's life, Ash", the boy called into his ear. "There ain't no why, and there ain't no answers.

The result is the Strategy Paradox: strategies with the greatest possibility of success also have the greatest possibility of failure. Resolving this paradox requires a new way of thinking about strategy and uncertainty.

The world is a confusing place, meaningful and meaningless at once.

The Man With Two Faces

I can't speak for the future. I have no crystal ball.

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.

I feel something I can't quite put my finger on, something euphoric but deeply unsayable. Is it love or just not hate? Is it joy or just not sadness?

Of course it's not simple. Who said it was simple? But you know what? Lots of loose ends don't ever get tied up. Play the hand you're dealt. Move on.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Oscar Wilde

nothing is black and white except for mathematics and pandas.

There's plenty of serious stuff that works to cord the muscles of literary merit. But

I am neither good, nor bad, neither angel nor devil, I am a man, I am a vampire.

Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.

Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great … He hangs between; in doubt to act or rest; In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and reasoning but to err.

Myths, whether in written or visual form, serve a vital role of asking unanswerable questions and providing unquestionable answers. Most of us, most of the time, have a low tolerance for ambiguity and uncertainty. We want to reduce the cognitive dissonance of not knowing by filling the gaps with answers. Traditionally, religious myths have served that role, but today — the age of science — science fiction is our mythology.

didn't know whether to shit once, twice, go blind, or die – though the latter was looking like a strong

was tugging now. But, while

Want to guarantee nasty conflicts? Take a word with multiple, fuzzy, definitions, force people to strike an agreement on it, attach large amounts of money to it, and then watch them fight about it a year or two later.

To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous. Proverb

He simply hoped that difficult decisions would make themselves.

It was the chaos of just doing things that actually got things done. Except, even if you assumed that not knowing how to do things didn't much matter if you just did them, it was still not clear who was going to do what you wanted to do.

but I reckon if we could see into the forthcoming, we'd all be rich, and scared shitless.

These days, the bigger the company, the less you can figure out what it does.

What about you, Michel, what are you going to do here?' The response closest to the truth was probably something like 'Nothing'; but it's always difficult to explain that kind of thing to an active person.