Quotes About Unpredictability

No matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible BE the unexpected.

How can days and happenings and moments so good become so quickly ugly, and for no reason, for no real reason? Just—change. With nothing causing it.

There's something very strange and touching about humans. An android would have never done that. (…) It wouldn't have occurred to him; as he said, never in a million years.

While nobody wants to say how bad it is, there's no way to pretend it's a normal day.

And perhaps the sun, in search of novelty, will rise in the west.

the anxiety of the unpredictable came only when you dealt with amateurs

the law of sensitive dependence on initial conditions means that a slight variation over time can produce a major change in outcome, "much as a ship whose bearing is one degree off compass will eventually find itself hundreds of miles off course.

No surprises, no practical jokes, nothing unexpected, but a parent can't control everything, and there's a world of backfiring cars and their human equivalents.

The world's best swordsman doesn't fear the second best; he fears the worst swordsman, because he can't predict what the idiot will do.

Human beings, however, were different from apples and oranges: The flavor of the peel did not reliably predict the taste of the pulp.

People who were perfectly sane on Tuesday sometimes go nuts on Wednesday.

I realized that loving people, depending on them, NEEDING them, is just too dangerous. Love is just a way to set you up for a bad fall. It's the rug they pull out from under you at the very moment you decide that everything's going to be fine. We're all so ephemeral. So fragile. And life's so unpredictable.

Counter-insurgency, as you know, is a roller-coaster affair.

There's really no way to plan how to play an alien.

Anything is possible in football and every match is different!

I want to be in a space where, if I appear on the stage or the screen, the audience should not know what I'm going to do.

Le hasard est le plus grand romancier du monde : pour être fécond, il n'y a qu'à l'étudier.

An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilisations encountered just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in the same way a sentence encountered a full stop.

Inaccessibility, sporadic and impulsive interventions, unpredictability, lack of a regular working pattern, administrative disinterest, and ready resort to long-winded monologues instead of attention to detail were all hallmarks of Hitler's style as party leader.

There is a value in unprogrammed elements in a programmed world

Do what is unexpected of you.

God is great and God is good, but God is also elusive and unpredictable,

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From the point of view of basic physics, the most interesting phenomena are, of course, in the new places, the places where the rules do not work - not the places where they do work! That is the way in which we discover new rules.