Quotes About Stability

Such income provides them some insulation from randomness.

We are gliding into disorder, but not necessarily bad disorder. This implies that we will see more periods of calm and stability, with most problems concentrated into a small number of Black Swans.

too high a rate of mutation prevents locking in the benefits of previous changes: evolution (and progress) requires some, but not too frequent, variation.

So to have a pleasant life you should spread these small "affects" across time as evenly as possible.

Laws come and go; ethics stay.

the more nonlinear the response, the less relevant the average, and the more relevant the stability around such average.

Things that have worked for a long time are preferable - they are more likely to have reached their ergodic states. At the worst, we don't know how long they'll last.

You are buying dependability.

Não ser um peru" começa quando descobrimos a diferença entre estabilidade verdadeira e fabricada. O leitor pode facilmente imaginar o que acontece quando sistemas, sufocados pela volatilidade, explodem. Temos um bom exemplo: a remoção do Partido Baath em 2003, com a abrupta derrubada de Saddam Hussein e seu regime por obra dos Estados Unidos. Mais de 100 mil pessoas morreram e, dez anos mais tarde, o lugar ainda é um caos.

gravest of all manifestations of silent evidence, the illusion of stability. The

I had been told in high school that the planets are in something called equilibrium, so we did not have to worry about the stars hitting us unexpectedly. To me, that eerily resembled the stories we were also told about the "unique historical stability" of Lebanon.

One has the illusion of stability, but is fragile; the other one the illusion of variability, but is robust and even antifragile.

It always returns to its initial state.

Why is it that science comes and goes and technologies remain stable?

to make money you must first survive

chess grandmasters usually win by not losing; people become rich by not going bust (particularly when others do);

Fixed points they are, and best left undisturbed, for without them, nothing holds together. But sometimes people find this out too late.

The more unstable the economy and the more rapid the rate of change—the more urgent the need for large numbers of self-esteeming individuals.

The past never changes—and from what I can see, neither does the future.

Even though the whole world had slid of its axis. Breakfast was breakfast. How dare it be?

Saber mantener el equilibrio justo entre soledad y gente, ésa es la clave, ésa es la táctica, para no acabar en el manicomio.

Certains ne deviennent jamais fous... Leurs vies doivent être bien ennuyeuses

Carrying their flints and torches, Native Americans were living in balance with Nature—but they had their thumbs on the scale. Shaped for their comfort and convenience, the American landscape had come to fit their lives like comfortable clothing. It was a highly successful and stable system, if "stable" is the appropriate word for a regime that involves routinely enshrouding miles of countryside in smoke and ash.

Carrying their flints and torches, Native Americans were living in balance with Nature—but they had their thumbs on the scale. Shaped for their comfort and convenience, the American landscape had come to fit their lives like comfortable clothing. It was a highly successful and stable system, if "stable" is the appropriate word for a regime that involves routinely enshrouding miles of countryside in smoke and ash. And