Quotes About Uncertainty

Probability said that someday we would run out of luck—as

If, despite repression, the sources of power can be restricted or severed for enough time, the initial results may be uncertainty and confusion within the dictatorship. That is likely to be followed by a clear weakening of the power of the dictatorship. Over time, the withholding of the sources of power can produce the paralysis and impotence of the regime, and in severe cases, its disintegration. The dictators' power will die, slowly or rapidly, from political starvation.

Am I going crazy…as in crazier than I already am?

I live between fearing doom and wishing for it.

no strategy ever survived contact with the enemy. Or, in the vernacular, Things Will Go Wrong. Be Prepared.

Then the howling started. It was either hellhounds or teenagers, and she suspected the former.

one of the Library's mottos was borrowed directly from the great military thinker Clausewitz: no strategy ever survived contact with the enemy. Or, in the vernacular, Things Will Go Wrong. Be Prepared.

We don't know how many worlds there are, so we don't know how many we lose to chaos.

Maybe if Irene uses the Language—how did you get here? We're down in the far end of chaos.

I work in situations where random events happen. I can't forbid them to happen. I can only make allowances for them and deal with them when they occur.

was the fear of death and everything that went with it in this place:

voice comes out high like a girl's. I never know whether I'm going to sound like Mickey Mouse or the giant on top of the beanstalk.

Nobody knows how things will turn out, that's why they go ahead and play the game...You give it your all and sometimes amazing things happen, but it's hardly ever what you expect.

Life is amazing, isn't it? You can't ever tell what will happen. Nobody knows until they go ahead and play the game.

But trust them? Not on your life.

I am always on the edge of what I am doing. I do everything badly, sloppily, to get it over with so that I can get on to the next thing that I will do badly and sloppily so that I can then do nothing - which I do anxiously, distractedly, wondering all the time if there isn't something else I should be getting on with.

Much of Australia's history had been shaped by the contradiction that it depended intimately and comprehensively on a country which was further away that almost any other in the world. Now the dependence had slackened, the distance had diminished. The Antipodes were drifting, though where they were drifting no one knew.

It is not faithless to stand without faith, keeping open vigil at the site

This half-puzzled, awkward surprise is yours; you cannot hear me or quite make me out. Formalities preserve us: perhaps I too am a shade.

No program can say what another will do. Now, I won't just assert that, I'll prove it to you. I will prove that although you might work till you drop, You cannot tell if computation will stop.

Quality and consistency of conjecture are one good measure of the ambition and the inwardness of any literary biography. The biographer is master of the archive, but also and equally master of the subjunctive mood, of un-certainty, of non-factuality.

Trust is crazy. You are a risky, risky, God. I didn't sign up to be Amazing Trust Boy, and I did not sign up for Danger God. You're flatly not safe…

Woyzeck - Gidiyorum ben, herÅŸey umulur. Ä°nsan! Her ÅŸey umulur.

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.