Quotes About Uncertainty

When you're a starving artist, you make do. It didn't matter that I didn't know where my rent was coming from.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.

My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not about God alone, but agnosticism about everything.

We futurists have a magic button. We follow every statement about a failed forecast with 'yet.'

At different times in my life, I've made grand statements like, 'I want these many kids, and I want them by this age.' I think, with every year that goes by, I accept that I don't know when it's going to happen or how it's going to happen. I'll just take it one day at a time, and when I'm ready, I'll be ready. It'll reveal itself, I guess.

I write about moments, and I don't make blanket statements about anything because no one has all the answers; nobody's come up with a foolproof way to do anything when it comes to emotions.

He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship.

Those days if you drove cross country and you broke down on the side of the road, and the sign says 200 miles to the next gas station, you knew you were so screwed.

I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.

You can't statistic through your whole life.

Both poker and investing are games of incomplete information. You have a certain set of facts and you are looking for situations where you have an edge, whether the edge is psychological or statistical.

An old friend of mine, an economist by trade, once explained to me that the statistical definition of 'dilemma' is 49.9% in favor and 50.1% against. If the gap is greater, there is no dilemma, because the answer is clear.

You can stand at a bar and scream all you want about who was the greatest athlete and which was the greatest sports dynasty, and you can shout out your precious statistics, and maybe you're right, and maybe the red-faced guy down the bar - the one with the foam on his beer and the fancy computer rankings - is right, but nobody really knows.

I don't think I will be playing Q again. I could be wrong, but I'm not counting on it. The character has come from the bad boy to being the status quo, really.

Alone! Alone! No beacon, far or near! No chart, no compass, and no anchor stay!

I can't stay No. 1 for fifty years, you know. We'll see what happens.

I've stayed in houses that were in the country, and in England, but I'm still not sure that I've stayed in an English country house.

I really started to forget things. That's why I quit reciting statistics: because I couldn't remember them exactly, and I stayed away from mentioning some players by name because I really wasn't sure, and I didn't want to make a mistake.

I have no idea what would have happened to me had I stayed at Motherwell.

It's hard enough just staying in the present. I can't tell you what's going to happen tomorrow.

When you sign a contract you only think about staying for all of it, but that depends on many things.

One always hopes that you're going to have influence and staying power, but you never know.

Every new invention is like a baby. You think it may cure cancer or become the president, but in the end, you're happy it just stays out of jail.