Quotes About Unpredictability

You cannot surprise an individual more than twice with the same marvel

The best swordsman in the world doesn't need to fear the second best swordsman in the world; no, the person for him to be afraid of is some ignorant antagonist who has never had a sword in his hand before; he doesn't do the thing he ought to do, and so the expert isn't prepared for him; he does the thing he ought not to do; and often it catches the expert out and ends him on the spot.

I could never plan a thing and get it to come out the way I planned it. It came out some other way--some way I had not counted upon.

But, don't you know, there are some things that can beat smartness and foresight? Awkwardness and stupidity can. The best swordsman in the world doesn't need to fear the second best swordsman in the world; no, the person for him to be afraid of is some ignorant antagonist who has never had a sword in his hand before; he doesn't do the thing he ought to do, and so the expert isn't prepared for him.

One wild card was yet to be played.

The problem with a book is that you never know what it's planning to do to you until you're too far into it.

We are a strange people, Howden thought: an unpredictable admixture of mediocrity and genius, with now and then a flash of greatness.

What was it that gave Ammu this Unsafe Edge? This air of unpredictability? It was what she had battling inside her. An unmixable mix. The infinite tenderness of motherhood and the reckless rage of a suicide bomber.

They had not understood - they'd not known what a hole you faced when you turn around, and the one you'd thought would always be there was gone.

In psychology, there's something called the broken-leg problem. A statistical formula may be highly successful in predicting whether or not a person will go to a movie in the next week. But someone who knows that this person is laid up with a broken leg will beat the formula. No formula can take into account the infinite range of such exceptional events.

the real lesson is that under conditions of true complexity—where the knowledge required exceeds that of any individual and unpredictability reigns—efforts to dictate every step from the center will fail. People need room to act and adapt. Yet

We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet

The universe does not behave according to our pre-conceived ideas. It continues to surprise us.

You cannot predict the future.

As those who have seen Jurassic Park will know, this means a tiny disturbance in one place, can cause a major change in another. A butterfly flapping its wings can cause rain in Central Park, New York. The trouble is, it is not repeatable. The next time the butterfly flaps its wings, a host of other things will be different, which will also influence the weather. That is why weather forecasts are so unreliable.

even if there were events before the big bang, one could not use them to determine what would happen afterward, because predictability would break down at the big bang.

Segunda ley de la termodinámica]. Según esta ley, el desorden o la entropía aumenta siempre con el tiempo. En otras palabras, se trata de una forma de la ley de Murphy: las cosas van a peor.

All the evidence points to God being an inveterate gambler, who throws the dice on every possible occasion.

This says that in any closed system disorder, or entropy, always increases with time. In other words, it is a form of Murphy's law: things always tend to go wrong!

A butterfly flapping its wings in Australia can cause rain in Central Park, New York.

It is a matter of common experience that things get more disordered and chaotic with time.

Belli ki Tanr? yaln?zca zar atmakla kalm?yor,ayr?ca gözleri kapal? oynuyor ve ara s?ra da zarlar? görülemeyecek yerlere at?yor.

Life turns on a dime. Sometimes towards us, but more often it spins away, flirting and flashing as it goes: so long, honey, it was good while it lasted, wasn't it?

Unpredictability is beauty of life. Struggle makes it interesting and worth living.?????????? ???? ?? ??????? ??? ?????? ??? ???? ?? ???? ?? ???? ????? ???