Quotes About Unpredictability

THE ATTRACTOR OF HÉNON. A simple combination of folding and stretching produced an attractor that easy to compute yet still poorly understood by mathematicians. As thousands, the millions of points appear, more and more detail emerges. What appear to be single lines prove, on magnification, to be pairs, then pairs of pairs. Yet whether any two successive points appear nearby or far apart is unpredictable.

Life is unpredictable. You never know what will happen next. So what level of insanity am I going to have today?

Cancer and lightning go where they want. So does political corruption.

In case you guys didn't catch last week's episode, I'm out of the flock, I informed them. Angel has no allegiance to me. She's wanted me gone for a long time. And in case you didn't catch all the episodes from the past year, Angel is... unbalanced. Untrustworthy, Fang seconded. Unpredictable, Jeb added. Dangerous, Dylan chimed in.

Anyone who says they know what I'll do next is full of shit 'cause even I don't know what I'll do next.

Zig when the world expects you to zag

Motherhood runs its own way and is measured with another watch that, unfortunately, we can't control.

Whatever you think of Trump, I think most people would agree he is impulsive, and we certainly have an impulsive leader in North Korea in Kim Jong-un. That's an unholy combination.

Abdul Qadir was my main role model. I just wanted to be like him because, for me, he was only guy who no one could read. He was that good. His passion, his love for legspin, was unique. He would create new things all the time: flippers, sliders, three to four kinds of googlies, legspinners, topspinners.

It was a unique childhood, to say the least. My father was born in Patiala to refugee parents and was a part of the Indian Air Force. The talented few amongst the Air Force pilots are made test pilots. Test pilots are best suited to look at the space programme as they are trained to expect the unexpected.

Children are weird. I was going to say 'most children,' but I think this a rare universal law.

God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers.

We have a picture for how complexity arises, because if the universe is computationally capable, maybe we shouldn't be so surprised that things are so entirely out of control.

Attempts to tame the wayward and domesticate the riotous, to make the unknowable predictable and enchain the free-roaming - all such things sound the death knell to love.

That's what makes live TV exciting - the unknown!

A Trump presidency will plunge the United States into an era of unknowns that has little parallel in the nation's 240-year history.

Womankind Is ever a fickle and a changeful thing.

I think almost everything important that's ever happened was unimaginable shortly before it happened. Good things and bad things: ending slavery, ending child labor, women voting, etc.

I like to play smart, three-dimensional women. I also like to play roles where the women are a little crazy. I just have a feel for crazy people.

You can't predict what people are going to like. You have to stay true to your enthusiasm and obsessions.

one must take into account the shocking fact that we live on a world that spins. After considering this truth, nothing should come as a surprise.

All things considered, the happiest epitaph to have etched on one's headstone is this: 'He never knew what hit him'.

But that is the way of the body. You are bound to surrender to its most eccentric turns.

What goes around may come around, but it never ends up exactly the same place, you ever notice? Like a record on a turntable, all it takes is one groove's difference and the universe can be on into a whole 'nother song.