Quotes About Unpredictability

You can't determine for yourself the way things should be. Things change by their very nature. How can you tie down any idea? You can see that you can't.

Florida is a theme park," said Serge. "And the theme is weirdness.

Never judge a team by its past performance. On any given day, any team can beat another

There are no rules in live television.

I believe there's one rule in Hollywood, and that's that there are no rules.

I don't think the computer will win the Booker, but no-one ever expected a computer to beat a chess grandmaster.

We just do not know what is normal.

There's a certain amount of joy in playing a character in the moment and not knowing what's going to roll out as it goes on. It's a bit like life, in a way.

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

There's a sense in all my novels that nothing is certain.

Test cricket might seem to be slow and ponderous at times, yet it is capable of conjuring great drama from nowhere.

I'm obsessed with giving the audience something they don't see coming.

Oh , kinda playing things by ear

No matter how well you know what a person has done and what he thought he was doing when he did it and what he now thinks of what he did, it is impossible to be certain of what he will do next.

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

None of the things one frets about ever happen. Something one's never thought of does.

We're like the Comanches was two hundred years ago. We don't know what's goin to show up here come daylight. We don't even know what color they'll be.

Real trouble doesn't begin in a society until boredom has become its most general feature. Boredom will drive even quietminded people down paths they never imagined.

Three weeks ago I was a law abidin citizen. Workin a nine to five job. Eight to four, anyways. Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission.

Well, get used to it, the whole world is nuts.

We lived, lulled, on the fault line of chaos. Change could come explosively, and out of nowhere.

The best and most innovative products don't always win...(it's an) aesthetic flaw in how the universe worked

In classic Steve fashion, he would agree to something, but it would never happen," said Lack. "He would set you up and then pull it off the table. He's pathological, which can be useful in negotiations. And he's a genius.

there's your answer." It was not, however, a definitive answer. Jobs had a way of focusing on something with insane intensity for a while and then, abruptly, turning away his gaze. At work, he would focus on what he wanted to, when he wanted to, and on other matters he would be unresponsive, no matter how hard people tried to get him to engage. In his personal life, he was the same way.