Quotes About Uncertainty

If, as you say, our minds are delusion generators, then we're all like blind and deaf sea captains shouting orders into the universe and hoping it makes a difference. We have no way of knowing what really works and what merely seems to work. So doesn't it make sense to try all the things that appear to work even if we can't be sure?

The rest of the universe is like the coin. The events of the past appear to cause the present, but every time we pop back into existence we are subject to a new set of probabilities. Literally anything can happen.

Systems have no deadlines, and on any given day you probably can't tell if they're moving you in the right direction

Anyone who is confident in the face of great complexity is insane.

Never assume you understand the odds of things. I

Never assume you understand the odds of things.

Decisiveness Decisiveness looks like leadership. Keep in mind that most normal people are at least a little bit uncertain when facing unfamiliar and complicated situation. What people crave in that sort of environment is anything that looks like certainty. If you can deliver an image of decisiveness, no matter how disingenuous, others will see it as leadership.

One might say that ambiguity is the diet of literary studies.

Writing takes place in an open playing field with limitless possibilities, most of them terrible.

std::bind can express the same thing, but the construct is an example of job security through code obscurity:

Because there was something to be said for going through life in a fog. In the fog, you couldn't see the monsters coming.

No military state, no civil war in the streets. Just the erosion of any kind of certainty. Everyone unsure. Making up his own explanations.

you can never plan well enough. Life will always outwit you.

At least one thing was consistent about her life: It just kept on getting more complicated.

Reality had no gears, and you never knew what surprises would come spinning out of its chaos.

That's how things were out here in the wild, she was learning. Dangerous or beautiful. Or both.

And the worst thing was, there were no mirrors out there in the wild, so the princess was left wondering whether she in fact was still beautiful... or if the fall had changed the story completely.

But it's always taking a risk, when you ... kiss someone new.

that was what kept the world interesting...reality had no gears, and you never knew what surprises would come spinning out of its chaos.

Life doesn't come with an instruction manual.

Fine. Seer knows best, even if he is nuts. Maybe I can stand to wait a few more... whoa. What the hell happened to my car? -Melissa

Fate didn't care a squick about what anybody was meant to do.

He squeezed her hand. Then I'll come get you, wherever you are when it happens. We'll be okay. But what about everybody else? He stared out across the river, nodding slowly. My guess is, everybody else is in big trouble.

Da allora il sole, la luna e le stelle possono continuare tranquillamente il loro corso, io non so se sia giorno o notte, e tutto il mondo svanisce intorno a me.