Quotes About Predictability

The very triteness of it seemed to ensure its likelihood.

A characteristic of all crises is their predictability, in retrospect. They seem to have a certain inevitability, they seem predestined.

I think I know what frightens Clare - a certain ability to invent our own future has been lost. ... Now the good things are the predictable ones, and surprises mean bad news.

As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what's going to happen.

the Law of Inevitable Occurrence. In layman's terms, this law states that some things simply have to happen. If there's a red button on a console with the words don't push taped above it, someone will push it. If there's a gun hanging conspicuously above Chekhov's fireplace, someone is going to end up shooting it (probably at Nietzsche).

Pocas cosas son verdaderamente aleatorias

You go to Starbucks, and you know what you're going to get. It's the same with my yoga.

I reckon if you stick to the same thing every day for lunch when you are traveling, you know where you are. And it is one less decision to make.

There is no linear additive process that, if all the parts are taken together, can be understood to create the total system that occurs at the moment of self-organization; it is not a quantity that comes into being. It is not predictable in its shape or subsequent behavior or its subsequent qualities. There is a nonlinear quality that comes into being at the moment of synchronicity.

When people go to the theater, people say they want something different, but what they really want is something the same with slight permutations. To really not know what is going to happen next is a hard thing.

I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.

It never happens that a new constellation suddenly rises out of the east. There is an order, a predictability, a permanence about the stars. In a way, they are almost comforting.

They think they want good government and justice for all, Vimes, yet what is it they really crave, deep in their hearts? Only that things go on as normal and tomorrow is pretty much like today.

Life is not so predictable. I am forced to listen more carefully. In the right and left worlds, the stories told are largely set, there much to defend at the expense of the other, rhetoric is charged with certitude; it's safer here, we are sure we are correct. We become missionaries for a position, yes, exactly, no doubt about it, practitioners of the missionary position. Variety is lost. Diversity is lost. Creativity is lost in our inability to make love with the world.

What is trust, sidhe-seer, but expectation that another will behave in a certain fashion, consistent with prior actions?

Human nature is such that our happiness depends on reliable, secure, and predictable social relationships, and without them we feel lost.

Is a twist less satisfying if you know it's coming? Is a twist that you can't predict symptomatic of bad construction? These are things to consider when writing.

People clustered in twos or threes or fours, I have come to believe, both constitute creatures in and of themselves and, together as tandems or triunes or packs, form another sort of myriad-minded creature whose actions are far from predictable.

One of the few things I knew for sure by then about traumatized children was that they need predictability, routine, a sense of control and stable relationships with supportive people.

Indeed, if moderate, predictable and patterned, it is stress that makes a system stronger and more functionally capable.

Trust is built with consistency.

things that seem hopelessly random and unpredictable when viewed in isolation often turn out to be lawful and predictable when viewed in aggregate.

Some people like to do everything always the same thing. That's another way: To do the same thing.

An army post in peacetime is a dull place. Things happen, but then they happen over and over again.