Quotes About Unpredictability

A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth reading.

It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.

Later, he was to decide that Andrew's life had been fractally weird. That is, you could take any small piece of it and examine it in detail and it, in and of itself, would turn out to be just as complicated and weird as the whole thing in its entirety.

but the great thing about traveling with Pluto was that he only cared about you to the extent that you were interesting to him now. In that way he kept you on your toes. No aspect of the relationship could be counterfeited when it was being minted anew from moment to moment.

The stars' positions were randomly generated, a fact that drove Pluto crazy.

It is what you don't expect," he'd said, "that most needs looking for.

By way of introduction, let me just make a few general comments on this subject. The problem of distributing bathroom tissue to workers presents inherent challenges for any office management system due to the inherent unpredictability of usage—not every facility usage transaction necessitates the use of bathroom tissue, and when it is used, the amount needed (number of squares) may vary quite widely from person to person and, for a given person, from one transaction to the next.

But most of them must have the wit to understand that phenomena like these are maddeningly unstable, and that there's no telling what weird, seemingly inconsequential event might cause the system to shift into a radically different configuration.

What makes one man's life more interesting than another's? In general, I should say that we find unpredictable or novel things more interesting.

The evidence all points to the fact that we occupy not a well-mannered clockwork universe, but a destructive, violent, and hostile zoo.

?wiat nie ma obowi?zku by? dla ciebie zrozumia?ym.

European sense. No one can predict how it will end because there is no precedent for it.

the unexpectedness of war

I've made it my business to condition and train folks to understand that you'll never know what's going to come out of my mouth.

Justin Vernon is one of the collaborators Kanye will always go to. He doesn't fit in with any genres - you never know if he's gonna sing, like, the Bee Gees or some crazy, distorted thing. And you don't know what he's saying half the time. He's kind of like Michael McDonald, like he's got marbles in his mouth.

I'm always moving around. It's hard for offenses to get a grip on what I'm doing or where I'm at.

I kind of feel like with a musical, there's so few original musicals that people just don't know what to expect.

I'm inconsistent, even to myself.

Characters can be mysterious and you're not really sure which way they might turn at a given point.

Football works in mysterious ways.

A magic show and a concert are very similar in the way I like keeping things a mystery and not doing them the same way every time. The listener and the audience never know what's going to happen next.

I think there are two types of people - those who view life's uncertainty with dread and fear, and those who recognize that life's unpredictability is what makes life worth living.

The true essence of a dictatorship is in fact not its regularity but its unpredictability and caprice; those who live under it must never be able to relax, must never be quite sure if they have followed the rules correctly or not.

The conventional word that is employed to describe tyranny is "systematic." The true essence of a dictatorship is in fact not its regularity but its unpredictability and caprice; those who live under it must never be able to relax, must never be quite sure if they have followed the rules correctly or not. (The only rule of thumb was: whatever is not compulsory is forbidden.) Thus, the ruled can always be found to be in the wrong.