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Quotes About Unpredictable

What I did mind was being hit by a cab, then landing on the lap of a naked man. With an erection, Anya. He had an erection.
~ Gena Showalter
In tightly coupled and complected systems, it's nearly impossible to change anything, because you can't just change one area of the code, you must change one hundred, or even a thousand, areas of the code. And even the smallest changes can cause wildly unpredictable effects in distant parts of the system, maybe in something you've never even heard of.
~ Gene Kim
The good news is that, as Leibniz suggested, we appear to live in the best of all possible worlds, where the computable functions make life predictable enough to be survivable, while the noncomputable functions make life (and mathematical truth) unpredictable enough to remain interesting, no matter how far computers continue to advance.
~ George B. Dyson
Fate, that bloody, vicious, fickle bitch. Sometimes she loved him, and he could do nothing wrong. And sometimes she stuck a knife in his back.
~ Ilona Andrews
The madcap English weather which had been putting on a passable imitation of June now decided to play March.
~ Iris Murdoch
Because of what you have done things will happen later which can't possibly be foreseen.
~ Iris Murdoch
Life can be sudden.
~ Iris Murdoch
It wasn't our bad habits which really scared us; we got too used to them, they only worried others. It was the odd, unpredictable, brutal impulse you fought to restrain, the one that the rest never even saw and hopefully never would.
~ Irvine Welsh
You must have minimalism because every change, any change, has myriad side effects that can't always be allowed for. If the change is too great and the side effects too many, then it becomes certain that the outcome will be far removed from anything you've planned and that it would be entirely unpredictable.
~ Isaac Asimov
Of course you can never say zero possibility or 100 per cent possibility in football, because you never know what will happen because football changes so rapidly.
~ Carlos Tevez
One element of Madonna's career that really takes center stage is how many times she's reinvented herself. It's easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It's inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.
~ Taylor Swift
You never know when contemporary art is going to insinuate itself into a normally art-free zone.
~ Roberta Smith
Cats - a standing rebuke to behavioural scientists . . . least human of all creatures.
~ Lewis Thomas
O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle.
~ William Shakespeare
Life is a zoo in a jungle.
~ Peter De Vries
I'm a very spontaneous person. When I see something that might be fun or different, I will try it.
~ Shawn Mendes
You never know how life turns out.
~ Giannis Antetokounmpo
I suppose I try to look for those things where the world turns on you. It's every automobile accident, every accident at a party, you're having a good time until suddenly you're not.
~ John Irving
I'm really into Bam Margera. I've met him twice now. He's, like, crazy.
~ Playboi Carti
Politics is like roller skating. You go partly where you want to go, and partly where the damn things take you.
~ Henry F. Ashurst
War is an art and as such is not susceptible of explanation by fixed formula
~ George S. Patton
Non somos nós propietarios da vida, nós só cabalgamos un bicho salvaxe e imprevisíbel.
~ Suso de Toro
It's always something special with me. You never know how and what I can do on the court. I think that's why the people like that, a little bit a mystery part of me.
~ Gael Monfils
I'm the smart aleck. The class clown. I'm the guy who does the song nobody expects.
~ Brad Paisley