Quotes About Unpredictability

You need to plan the way a fire department plans: It cannot anticipate where the next fire will be, so it has to shape an energetic and efficient team that is capable of responding to the unanticipated as well as to any ordinary event.

You know, nothing ever goes back exactly the way it was. Things just expand and contract. Like the universe, like breathing. But you'll never fill your lungs up with the same air twice. Sometimes, it would be cool if you could pause and rewind and do over. But I think anyone would get tired of that after one or two times.

Geralt had discovered, many times, that all mechanisms are unreliable. They only worked when they ought not to work, and vice versa.

You don't get to make Westerns every day.

Peter Sellers was great to work with. A lovely man. A little bit crazy in that he - you know, as I say, it was hard. It was sort of balancing a very delicate spirit on a needle. You know, because you never know where he was going.

Planning bores me. I like to go with the flow. Being whimsical is nice, occasionally. It keeps things fresh; there's no expectation.

People are going to go out and do things after games and celebrate and do that kind of stuff. Everybody cannot be everywhere, and nobody can prevent crazy things from happening. Stuff is going to happen, and you've just got to deal with it.

If I wanted to do the same thing every day, I would have gone into a different profession.

I think God does a lot of things in different ways.

I don't plan my dinners at the beginning of the week.

Life is crazy. It goes in directions that you could never guess.

This is football, no more explanation, sometimes the best team does not win.

That's the English Premier League. You can win against the best teams and then lose against the last.

Once we have something that is no longer under control, once technological development is yanked out of our hands, it doesn't have to continue to be beneficial to humans.

I don't have a daily routine, beyond brushing my teeth. It changes every day.

The desert tells a different story every time one ventures on it.

Lightning doesn't strike twice.

She's like that, always shifting the goalposts. What was right one minute was wrong the next. You had to walk on eggshells, you really did.

the odds are good, but the goods are odd

Chess looks like a zero-sum game; if one loses, the other wins—until a dog trots by and knocks over the table, spills the beer, and leaves you both worse off than before.

It is dangerous to spring to obvious conclusions about baseball or, for that matter, ball players. Baseball is not an obvious game.

What the Second Law indeed states, roughly speaking, is that things are getting more 'random' all the time.

What nobody could have foreseen in 1913 was that

Street-fighting's first rule: there are no rules.