Quotes About Predictability

Clearly as you move to being a public company, probably even more than growth, there is a huge value based on predictability.

I think a series risks straying into self-parody if you get into a fourth series... sometimes even if you get into a third, because the audience knows how it's going to go.

Ljudi koji u proro?anstvu traže budu?nost zapravo žele znati kakva ?e biti cijena kitovog krzna idu?e godine ili nešto sli?no banalno. Nitko stvarno ne želi imati život predvidiv u svakom trenutku.

leoparzi patrund in Templu si beau din vasele de sacrificiu. evenimentul are loc din nou si din nou. pana la urma devine predictibil. devine parte a ceremoniei.

The one thing that kids need is consistency.

I think the problem with a lot of the fusion music is that it's extremely predictable, it's a rock rhythm and the solos all play the same stuff and they play it over and over again and there's a certain musical virtuosity involved in it.

The nice thing about baseball is that all of the possible outcomes are known - it's not quite as messy as the real world. That makes the game an excellent playground for probability.

Este es el momento en el que Occidente pasó del estadio que el sociólogo Zygmunt Bauman llamó «modernidad sólida» —un periodo en el que el cambio social aún era relativamente predecible y manejable— al de «modernidad líquida», nuestra condición actual, en la que los cambios son tan rápidos que las instituciones sociales no tienen tiempo para cuajar y consolidarse19.

There can never be surprises in logic.

This is called the "principle of legitimacy," and legitimacy is based on three things. First of all, the people who are asked to obey authority have to feel like they have a voice—that if they speak up, they will be heard. Second, the law has to be predictable. There has to be a reasonable expectation that the rules tomorrow are going to be roughly the same as the rules today. And third, the authority has to be fair. It can't treat one group differently from another.

reigning Miss Predictability, Steph said, proudly representing the fine state of Utah. My inability to be spontaneous is part of my charm. It's true. You wouldn't be you otherwise.

Qué puede temerse de un mundo tan regular?

The same things are done by us, over and over, with terrible predictability. One may be forgiven, in view of this, for wishing at least to associate with beauty.

Fourth, although a bit more difficult to do than the previous three considerations, you should attempt to evaluate the character of the moral actor. Character is the tendency of a person to act in predictable ways over time. Virtue theorists have led the way in insisting that any ethic that does not concern itself with character and virtue is incomplete and reduces ethics to merely a preoccupation with actions, specifically moral dilemmas that people do not often face.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Security and safety were the reward of dullness.

We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness.

The thing you can count on in life is that Tennessee will always be scorching hot in August.

In my normal life I'm a very unadventurous person.

Artistically I'm curious. But in life? No. I can go to a restaurant and order the same thing for 10 years.

Your house is all about routine, not the unexpected events of your life.

While we all need external structure in our lives—some degree of predictability, routine, organization—those with ADD need it much more than most people. They need external structure so much because they so lack internal structure.

Whatever happens in the stock market to-day has happened before and will happen again.

What can one figure out in the context and concept of human nature that if one says, I eat an apple every day, and even nothing happens?