Quotes About Unpredictability

How can you sit here and know that day... three I'm not going to be driving you crazy because I laugh like a horse or...or... dress up your penis in Barbie clothes?

I don't want a well-ordered life.... I would die from boredom in a fortnight.

Nothing´s permanent. Nothing .

Every once in a while, when the audience is expecting to see one thing, you have to show them something else.

As an actor, it's up to you to show that you can do something else. For me, the interesting actors don't always go where you expect to find them.

Life has to be a roller coaster ride. Otherwise, what's the point of living? Why should I make a song and dance about mine?

I never know what I'm going to get. A 'Sopranos' fan is very different from a 'Big Lebowski' fan.

Let a man sow a field or plant a farm never so well, yet he cannot foretell who will gather in the fruits; another may build him a house of fairest proportion, yet he knows not who will inhabit it.

Love does whatever it does, whenever it wants to do it.

Triana realized Alexio was going to unravel her predictable world and the idea excited her.

Because you made me feel, Flick. Everyone is so predictable, but you? You showed up and rocked my world.

Life is strange, and often imponderable!

The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history

No matter how sophisticated our choices, how good we are at dominating the odds, randomness will have the last word.

I know that history is going to be dominated by an improbable event, I just don't know what that event will be.

History is opaque. You see what comes out, not the script that produces events, the generator of history.

You get pseudo-order when you seek order; you only get a measure of order and control when you embrace randomness.

What is surprising is not the magnitude of our forecast errors, but our absence of awareness of it. This is all the more worrisome when we engage in deadly conflicts: wars are fundamentally unpredictable (and we do not know it). Owing to this misunderstanding of the causal chains between policy and actions, we can easily trigger Black Swans thanks to aggressive ignorance-like a child playing with a chemistry kit.

there is something in nature you don't understand, odds are it makes sense in a deeper way that is beyond your understanding.

our world is dominated by the extreme, the unknown, and the very improbable (improbable according our current knowledge)—and all the while we spend our time engaged in small talk, focusing on the known, and the repeated. This

So the modern world may be increasing in technological knowledge, but, paradoxically, it is making things a lot more unpredictable.

Black Swans and tail events run the socioeconomic world

Black Swan has three attributes: unpredictability, consequences, retrospective explainability.

I know that history will be dominated by an improbable event, I just don't know what that event will be.