Quotes About Fluctuations

Just as price fluctuations allocate scarce resources which have alternative uses, price controls which limit those fluctuations reduce the incentives for individuals to limit their own use of scarce resources desired by others.

Yoga is the mastery of the mind's fluctuations.

Antifragile shows how people confuse risk of ruin with variations and fluctuations—a simplification that violates a deeper, more rigorous logic of things.

shows why the convex likes volatility. If you earn more than you lose from fluctuations, you want a lot of fluctuations.

absence of fluctuations in the market causes hidden risks to accumulate with impunity. The longer one goes without a market trauma, the worse the damage when commotion occurs.

Families are always rising and falling in America.

In a season you can have good moments and others not so good.

My moods are like a roller coaster. It's hard for me to just feel one way all the time.

If we begin with the ill-understood laws of quantum gravity and then discard the fluctuations, we must obtain Einstein's well-understood relativistic laws of physics. The fluctuations we discard are, for example, a froth of fluctuating, exquisitely tiny wormholes ("quantum foam" that pervades all of space; Figure 26.3 and Chapter 14).

Black hole heat is directly connected to loop quantum gravity's fluctuations of the atoms of space.

Quantum uncertainty across the horizon of the black hole generates fluctuations of the horizon geometry. But "fluctuations" imply "probability," and probability implies thermodynamics, and therefore temperature. Concealing from us a part of the universe, a black hole makes its quantum fluctuations detectable in the form of heat.

The apparent determinism of the macroscopic world is due only to the fact that the microscopic randomness cancels out on average, leaving only fluctuations too minute for us to perceive in everyday life.

Marriage isn't a 50-50 proposition very often. It's more like 100-0 one moment and 0-100 the next.

NASCAR is not immune to the down economy.

The markets don't like instability and they don't like uncertainty.

Markets are unforgiving, and sometimes they move for reasons we can't possibly foresee.

Inflation is lower and more stable and the real business cycle fluctuations are more modest.

I think that an advanced planetary civilization will modify their own planets to be more stable, to prevent asteroid impacts and dangerous climate fluctuations.

She had spent all her life in feeling miserable; this misery was her native element; its fluctuations, its varying depths, alone save her the impression of moving and living. What bothers me is that a sense of misery, and nothing else, is not enough to make a permanent soul. My enormous and morose Mademoiselle is all right on earth but impossible in eternity.

Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. And it is best to fix our minds on that certainty, instead of considering what may be the elements of excuse for us.

The computer will still be unable to predict whether Princeton, New Jersey, will have sun or rain on a day one month away. At noon the spaces between the sensors will hide fluctuations that the computer will not know about, tiny deviations from the average. By 12:01, those fluctuations will already have created small errors one foot away. Soon the errors will have multiplied to the ten-foot scale, and so on up to the size of the globe.

life is supposed to have ups and downs. But for me, it's been more like ups and downs... and downs... and downs.

On a given day, you can have market fluctuations where prices fluctuate far more than the underlying economic value of the unit.

We are the product of quantum fluctuations in the very early universe.