Quotes About Uncertainty

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

everything was obvious in retrospect. They even had a name for it: "hindsight bias." It referred to the difficulty of remembering how little you knew at the time, how uncertain things were, before they all played out. Even wildly contingent events looked inevitable in retrospect. But they weren't. And it's actually psychologically difficult to imagine not knowing back then what you know now.

It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine (time I had some time alone).

Too many production systems are like Schrodinger's cat—locked inside a box, with no way to observe its actual state.

Things happen in production—bad things that you can't always predict. One

The 50–50–90 rule: Anytime you have a 50–50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong. Andy Rooney

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.

His advisers didn't know whether he was an isolationist or a militarist, or whether he could distinguish between the two.

Almost all the professionals who were now set to join him were coming face to face with the fact that it appeared he knew nothing.

I would never have to work again. I could travel where I wanted, work if and when I wanted, and be completely free. If I survived.

Both sides think they are about to lose. They are both correct." —Old military proverb

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

Their [the Skeptics'] way of speaking is: "I settle nothing…. I do not understand it…. Nothing seems true that may not seem false." Their sacramental word is E?___, which is to say, I suspend my judgment.

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

To philosophize is to doubt.

I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning. If you knew when you began a book what you would say at the end, do you think that you would have the courage to write it? What is true for writing and for love relationships is true also for life. The game is worthwhile insofar as we don't know where it will end.

I didn't even want to fuck her, or maybe I kind of wanted to fuck her but I also kind of wanted to die, I couldn't really tell.

În via?? se poate întâmpla orice, ÅŸi mai ales nimic.

What was he doing? Reading a little, maybe. We can't even be sure of this. In fact, his biographers have to admit they don't know much at all, and that, judging from appearances - at least between the ages of eighteen and twenty-three - he did absolutely nothing.

Considérant les événement présent de notre vie, nous oscillons sans cesse entre la croyance au hasard et l'évidence du déterminisme.

The fighting had begun. You could make out groups of masked men roaming around with assault rifles and automatic weapons. Windows had been broken, here and there cars were on fire, but the images, shot in the pelting rain, were of such poor quality it was impossible to get a clear idea of who was doing what.

Tout peut arriver dans la vie, et surtout rien.

la vie se caractérise par de longues plages d'ennui confus, elle est le plus souvent singulièrement morne; puis tout à coup une bifurcation apparaît, et cette bifurcation s'avère definitive.