Quotes About Predictability

Messi no longer surprises me.

When air conditioning, escalators, and advertising appeared, shopping expanded its scale, but also limited its spontaneity. And it became much more predictable, almost scientific. What had once been the most surprising became the most manipulated.

I hate it when, by page 30, I know what the lead's going to do and then what the bad guy's gonna do. Mostly it's just scripts by the numbers where nothing's surprising, nothing's interesting.

If you want a machine to be able to interact with people, it better not do things that are surprising to people.

Wenn die Intelligenten einen schlechten Charakter haben, so zeigt sich das, und wenn sie keinen schlechten Charakter haben, dann sind sie so leicht auszurechnen wie Quadratwurzeln.

Dash was a horrible person, but men tended to be horrible in predictable ways. A furious woman was capable of inflicting immense psychological damage, the kind that stuck around long after the wounds healed.

I don't really like surprises. Not big ones anyway. Just having a pack of Revels holds enough of a surprise for me.

Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.

No technique is possible when men are free. Technique requires predictability and, no less, exactness of prediction. It is necessary, then, that technique prevail over the human being.

a tacit cosmology in which the play principle (and by extension, creativity) is itself seen as frightening, while game-like behavior is celebrated as transparent and predictable, and where as a result, the advance of all these rules and regulations is itself experienced as a kind of freedom.

God is a God of systems and predictability and order, and God honors planning.

If the human being is condemned and restricted to perform the same functions over and over again, he will not even be a good ant, not to mention a good human being.

Spanish football is very good but every year the same teams win the league.

I guess I forgot we were going out tonight.""We always go out on Fridays.""It's Thursday, Alvis.""You are so tied to routine.

The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.

De mensen zijn zo consequent als een toverbal en zo voorspelbaar als een tsunami en soms deugen ze opeens.

Memory (...) should be treated like a pest; while old solutions retained in memory provide stability and some degree of predictability in an uncertain world, that stability - often called tradition or the way things have always been - can also stifle flexibility. The world remains uncertain no matter what we do to protect ourselves from it; we must always be prepared to leap outside of retained solutions to new enactments.

we instinctively trust the banality and predictability of daily life. Until something larger shatters our world.

In a company, people who have worked together for a long time will know how others will react in certain situations, and may even be able to anticipate what their colleagues might say.

The point isn't just whether children know what to expect; it's whether what they've come to expect makes sense.

America pays its bills. It always has. It always will. The fact that Washington is now debating whether to honor its debts and obligations, then, should come as a surprise. But playing political football with a necessary vote to raise the nation's debt ceiling has become as predictable as a Twitter rant from Charlie Sheen.

If you are watching television and two guys come out and you are already able to tell what the finish of that match is based on entrances alone, that's a problem.

I think one reason TV has always done well is because there is something comforting where you kind of know what you're going to be taken through.

I have promised on many occasions that I will build a consistent, predictable and sustainable cross-strait relationship.