Quotes About Instability

Grand economic theories rarely last more than a few decades. Some, if they are particularly in tune with technological or political events, may make it to half a century. Beyond that, little short of military force can keep them in place.

When you play professionally, you get accustomed to turnover. Players come and go - they get injured, they get transferred, they get cut from the team. Coaches are hired, and coaches are fired. It's just part of the world you live in.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

All over the world, the Trump administration is pursuing a range of policies: tweeting insults at Maduro, negotiating with a defiant North Korea, sending a small fleet of warships to the Persian Gulf to intimidate Iran. But the speed with which the president always sours on these efforts means they can never be part of any discernible strategy.

The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.

We can rewrite history all you want, but the simple fact is that we're in a much more unstable place because America pulled back.

Wars are caused by unprotected wealth.

That in a civil war there is continuous fighting, based on grievences that are forever changing.

The only thing that they can be relied on to do is to gallop too far and too fast.

This is impossible to predict. War may break out unexpectedly.

It wants to send us end over end so that what was up will be down.

Ordine, disordine, vita, morte, luce, ombra. Dal momento in cui avevo preso coscienza del mio esistere, non avevo fatto altro che interrogarmi, mi facevo domande a cui nessuno poteva rispondere. La saggezza forse è solo non chiedersi niente. Non sono saggio, non lo sono mai stato. Il mio elemento non è il quarzo ma il mercurio. Materia instabile, mobile, febbricitante. L'argento vivo destinato a muoversi sempre. E sempre nel disordine.

I'm on a frosting sailboat, tossed around by blue-green waves, the deck shifting beneath my feet.

Of course, the odds have not been very dependable of late.

Nerrissa? You believe her? Well, you at least have to credit her with a certain instability! Remember when she told you that I was going to take over the Fount with and army of Lobsters?" said Ripred. "You did try to take over the Fount with an army of Lobsters," said Vikus. "Yes, yes, but it was years before she was born. My point is, she flip-flops in and out of time like a fish in shallow waters," answered Ripred.

Debe de ser un sistema muy frágil, si un puñado de bayas puede hacer que se derrumbe

Men come and go. They lie, or die, or leave you.

They say love and hate are closely tied, that they can turn at a moment's notice.

If love happens because of a reason then the same love will disappear for another reason.

Theories are superfragile; they come and go, then come and go, then come and go again;

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

the antifragile benefits from volatility and disorder, the fragile is harmed.

Light control works; close control leads to overreaction, sometimes causing the machinery to break into pieces. In a famous paper "On Governors," published in 1867, Maxwell modeled the behavior and showed mathematically that tightly controlling the speed of engines leads to instability.

we will look at it with respect to resistance to randomness.