Quotes About Variability

The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.

I have to be flexible in my role, batting and bowling.

Some games you're gonna have seven shots, some games you're gonna have 15, it just ebbs and flows with the game.

There is no specific formula that you need to follow to do well on certain wickets.

Technology tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. People generally prefer the predictable. Few recognize how destructive this can be, how it imposes severe limits on variability and thus makes whole populations fatally vulnerable to the shocking ways our universe can throw the dice.

Technology, in common with many other activities, tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. Capital investment follows this rule, since people generally prefer the predictable. Few recognize how destructive this can be, how it imposes severe limits on variability and thus makes whole populations fatally vulnerable to the shocking ways our universe can throw the dice.

Technology, in common with many other activities, tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. Capital investment follows this rule, since people generally prefer the predictable. Few recognize how destructive this can be, how it imposes severe limits on variability and thus makes whole populations fatally vulnerable to the shocking ways our universe can throw the dice. —ASSESSMENT OF IX, BENE GESSERIT ARCHIVES

Genes work with probabilities; they don't work with certainties. So most things that you're looking at with these genetic tests, it's not like you're condemned to automatically get the disease or the syndrome. There's a lot of factors in play there.

I think the only thing I've got going for me as an actor specifically is the fact that I can change.

As Fama put it, "Life always has a fat tail.

A Gift from the Sea: "When you love someone, you don't love them the same way all the time…

Folks that has brought up children know that there's no hard and fast method in the world that'll suit every child

there is no universal standard of well-being.

I have usually found that, in life, good things are followed by bad things. One day you get an A-plus on a spelling test, the next time around you get a C (or worse). A run of good luck is followed by a run of bad luck. Good news is followed by bad news.

Brains exist because the distribution of resources necessary for survival and the hazards that threaten survival vary in space and time.

Individual events. Events beyond law. Events so numerous and so uncoordinated that, flaunting their freedom from formula, they yet fabricate firm form.

If a system is to deal successfully with the diversity of challenges its environment produces, then it needs to have a repertoire of responses (at least) as nuanced as the problems thrown up by the environment. So a viable system is one that can handle the variability of its environment. Or, as Ashby put it, only variety can absorb variety.

As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.

No book is really a fixed object. Every reader reads a book differently, and each book works in a different way on each reader.

My life shows a clear pattern of total unpredictability.

Everything in life is gray, you know.

Like most other mammals, human beings display a behavioral scale, a spectrum of responses that appear or disappear according to particular circumstances.

We are all mutants. But some of us are more mutant than others.

Sometimes it's really quick, and sometimes it's really long. There's no formula for writing songs.