Quotes About Unpredictability

Here's all I know: that the world is uncontrollable. Chaos reigns. That anything and everything might be possible. I won't subscribe to any rational system again. Nothing will bind me.

The clock-shop keeper holds the keys, repairs the rifts in time, its unpredictability. A wind-up world where nearly-there is good enough.

Las personas son tan imprevisibles que en ocasiones incluso a mí se me hace difícil manipularlas. A veces conviene dejarles algo de libertad para que actúen según su lamentable criterio. Con un poco de suerte, acaban empeorando bastante las cosas.

and things are about to get pretty crazy in this alleyway. Even for Amsterdam.

I'd say I can't catch a break, but I'm currently on the back of a zebra

No matter how exciting, new, original, or creative you personally believe your proposal is, always remember that these can be exactly the characteristics people translate to mean risk and unpredictability. Emphasize your proposal's attributes that meet personal needs, not those characteristics that emphasize change and unpredictability.

Comedy depends on the unexpected.

So much for a nice quiet evening with a good book.

I work in situations where random events happen. I can't forbid them to happen. I can only make allowances for them and deal with them when they occur.

No program can say what another will do. Now, I won't just assert that, I'll prove it to you. I will prove that although you might work till you drop, You cannot tell if computation will stop.

This was yet another one of those things that school failed to prepare you for: how to deal with the unpredictable behavior of real people in the real world.

War has a momentum of its own and it carries you away from all thoughtful intentions when you get into it. You know where you begin. You never know where you are going to end

Presidents may run for office on ideological platforms and promised policies, but their presidency is actually defined by the encounter between fortune and virtue, between the improbable and the unexpected—the thing that neither their ideology nor their proposals prepared them for—and their response. The president's job is to anticipate what will happen, minimize the unpredictability, then respond to the unexpected with cunning and power.

We would screw up our children. It was inevitable. Julie had taught me that you never get the child you want or expect. You get the child you get and you try your best to make sure they turn out to be a decent human being. That was all that mattered. An

Sometimes the Universe smiled. Mostly she kicked me in the face, stomped on my ribs once I fell down, and laughed at my pain, but once in a while she smiled. It was Wednesday.

We would screw up our children. It was inevitable. Julie had taught me that you never get the child you want or expect. You get the child you get and you try your best to make sure they turn out to be a decent human being. That was all that mattered.

It was extremely difficult to keep up any pace over the rocks since they were so unpredictable and devoid of reason. Their senselessness had never so much impressed me.

Life is not like a murder mystery. In mysteries people always do the same thing. Then when some little thing is out of line, some wise-guy amateur detective makes big deductions. In real life, people don't do the same things all the time. They do different things at different times. In real life, people are crazy.

What we gain in the straightaways, we lose in the roundabouts. That's the way the universe works. We've just got to fool it somehow.

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise… Because that is how life is — full of surprises.

La vida no es una foto, en que uno ordena las cosas para que se vean bien y luego fija la imagen para la posteridad; es un proceso sucio, desordenado, rápido, lleno de imprevistos. Lo único seguro es que todo cambia.

The three of us may be reunited on screen, we may go our separate ways, or we may disappear from the television altogether and each assume a place, alone, in the corner of a pub where any unsuspecting passing drinker who strays into an exclusion zone studiously avoided by the locals will be subjected to a predictable 'I used to be on TV' routine.

Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

Our lives are never certain, even for an hour.