Quotes About Instability

Everything nonstable or breakable has had ample chance to break over time.

So many instincts drive us.

we are not made to understand the point, so we overreact emotionally to noise.

fragility—which had been lacking a technical definition—could be expressed as what does not like volatility, and that what does not like volatility does not like randomness, uncertainty, disorder

in the event of its going down, it could go down a lot. Suddenly

We have been fragilizing the economy, our health, political life, education, almost everything Ã¢â'¬Â¦ by suppressing randomness and volatility. Just as spending a month in bed (preferably with an unabridged version of War and Peace and access to The Sopranos' entire eighty-six episodes) leads to muscle atrophy, complex systems are weakened, even killed, when deprived of stressors.

Someone who predicts will be fragile to prediction errors.

the feeling of false stability.

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.

I got a feeling this whole thing is going to come apart like wet bread.

Forse siamo come una moneta in bilico

Así el enamorado de la vida universal entra en la multitud como en una inmensa reserva de electricidad. También se lo puede comparar con un espejo tan grande como esa multitud; con un caleidoscopio dotado de conciencia que, con cada movimiento, representa la vida múltiple y la gracia cambiante de los elementos de la vida. Es un yo insaciable de no-yo que, a cada instante, lo capta y lo expresa en imágenes más vivas que la vida misma, siempre inestable y fugaz.

Son-of-a-bitch, I thought, one minute I've got two women and the next I've got none.

Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction.

I don't like this kind of life where every month you are faced with some kind of a coup.

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

Civilization is a mutant beast that emerged from the shattered egg of primitive stability.-Sissy Hankshaw

This program is subject to change -- often unexpectedly, sometimes in the batting of an eye. It's the best argument I know against suicide.

Uncertainty is the normal state.

Nothing could be counted on in a world where even when you were a solution you were a problem.

We have entered an age of insecurity—economic insecurity, physical insecurity, political insecurity.

Ice cream was reliable. Young men were not.

happen. Buildings can fall down, the church steeple can fall off, all the leaves can fall off the trees, and all the squirrels will fall off their branches.

But have you ever felt that something was so good it couldn't possibly last?