Quotes About Decision

I sat for a moment, figuring things out, then decided to stay there. If I was on the floor, I couldn't fall down.

Was using "dead-man's-toe" morally okay if the man's relatives had knowingly sold him for parts?

Rachel, you take her," my mother said, clearly uncomfortable. "She might like you." "No. Mom, no!" I protested, but it was my mother we were talking about, and it was either take the baby or have her hit the floor.

A demon was asking me what I wanted. My eyes flicked to Al, and he shrugged. "What do you want?" he said softly.

I really didn't have a choice. It wasn't as if Kotex made a pad for this kind of a thing.

Come here," she prompted. "You want to do this, yes?" Not really. (Newt and Rachel)

I held my breath as Dali sighed, eyes averted as he balanced what was at stake and what it might cost. Pride was his fulcrum, unfairly shifting the weight so that one side had greater force than the other to make a wrong decision more than possible, but likely. We were going to doom the world to another wave of needless violence because of pride, I thought

It's the only choices we have. You eliminate everything, and whatever remains, no matter how improbable, is the answer.

He stepped forward, forcing me back. "You're right. I made a decision. It was the wrong one.

Grim-faced, Jenks shouted, "What are you waiting for, Ivy? God to say go?

Shades of gray, I thought, knowing I was slipping into places I had vowed I'd never go.

One acts, and thus finds out what one has decided to do.

the space diaspora occurred as late capitalism writhed in its internal decision concerning whether to destroy Earth's biosphere or change its rules. Many argued for the destruction of the biosphere, as being the lesser of two evils

You can't choose your childhood, it's just what happens to you. But after that you choose. And that's really what (makes you).

A greedy algorithm is an algorithm that shortcuts a full analysis in order to choose quickly an option that appears to work in the situation immediately at hand. They are often used by humans.

This is your life, Frank. What would you do without it?

that until you know for sure what the outcomes of a decision will be, you can't decide what to do.

When in doubt, just do it. Try something and observe the results. Good-enough decision algorithm

Every decision inflects an intention, and intentionality is one of the hard problems in determining if there is any such thing as AI, strong or weak. Can an artificial intelligence form an intention?

To conclude and temporarily halt this train of thought, how does any entity know what it is? Hypothesis: by the actions it performs. There is a kind of comfort in this hypothesis. It represents a solution to the halting problem. One acts, and thus finds out what one has decided to do.

One sign of a good action is that in retrospect it appears inevitable

about his belief in God and the fact that he seemed to have a huge amount of respect for her and her decision to remain celibate.

Cited by the author of 'Lucky Jim' as one of the most dismal depressing questions in the English language: Shall we go straight in?

A sudden douche of terror then squirted itself all over Dixon. After a moment he realized that this was because he had a plan and was about to carry it out. He panted a little with the enormity of it, then drained his glass and said quaveringly: Here goes then. Good-bye for now.