Quotes About Unpredictability

This exposed an aesthetic flaw in how the universe worked: The best and most innovative products don't always win.

One thing I had learned in high school was that in sports you always had to move in a direction that your opponent did not expect. From Ping-Pong to prizefighting, the man with the unexpected moves was the player most likely to win.

In his other hand is a spear made from duct tape, a smashed Nokia phone from 1998 and a selfie stick. Welcome to the future.

I'm clearly insane. I'm threatening your life with a toothbrush

letting yourself be more spontaneous and less regimented in your daily life:

live more spontaneously—you don't need to neatly wrap up each detail of your life.

Keep track of situations that occur spontaneously or out of the realm of your control.

The greatest risks are never the ones you can see and measure, but the ones you can't see and therefore can never measure. The ones that seem so far outside the boundary of normal probability that you can't imagine they could happen in your lifetime—even though, of course, they do happen, more often than you care to realize.

The world doesn't just jump out of its axis on its own.

Gretchen's eyes blazed at Henry. 'Don't ever think you can know what I'll do

The universe, I'd learned, was never, ever kidding. It would take whatever it wanted and it would never give it back.

Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore

Anything can happen; this is the very rule of this universe! The best defence against this rule is this: Don't panic!

What we can be sure of, what we can rely on absolutely,is evil.It never lets us down.

People say 'Hofmann has different styles'. I have not. I have different moods; I am not two days the same man.

Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.

making sense? what fun is there in making sense?"~ Discord

I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives. It all depends on a combination of circumstances. If all the various cosmic thingummys fuse at the same moment, and the right spark is struck, there's no knowing what one mightn't do.

Un sinnúmero de pequeñas decisiones tomadas en toda la organización podrían conducirla hacia un lugar imprevisto, para sorpresa y posible consternación de la dirección ejecutiva.

I guess we'll be traveling in uncharted waters." "That'll be fun," Phil said.

is like a strange, unpopular restaurant, filled with

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

How was your day? Morelli asked me. Oh, you know, the usual. Stole a truck. Blew up a building, and brought seven monkeys home with me.

Thats what her cars do, Lula said. They explode. But I gotta tell you this was the best. This here's the first time she exploded a garbage truck. One time her truck got hit with an antitank missile. That wasn't bad either, but it couldn't compare to this.