#predictability

I don't like sitting around sets - I don't like the unpredictability of it. ↗

— Andrea Martin

#i #like #sets #sitting #unpredictability

It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and to make our unpredictable dreams come true ↗

— Freeman John Dyson

#unpredictability #dreams

I like predictability because I know what I'm getting into. ↗

— Katherine Heigl

#getting #i #into #know #like

In a world with no systems, with chaos, everything becomes a guerilla struggle, and this predictability is not there. And it becomes almost impossible to save lives, educate kids, develop economies, whatever. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#becomes #chaos #develop #economies #educate

The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all, we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds. That way we can keep open all the options, as we have in the past. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#agency #any #connected #dangerous #entrusted

A guarantee in this life: Change! Flexibility is better than predictability! ↗

— Evinda Lepins

#flexibility #predictability #change

Whenever you deal with science fiction you are setting up a world of rules. I think you work hard to establish the rules. And you also have to work even harder to maintain those rules, and within that find excitement and unpredictability and all that stuff. ↗

— Joel Edgerton

#deal #establish #even #excitement #fiction

Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of response, occupying their minds while you wait for the extraordinary moment — that which they cannot anticipate. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#people #predictability #surprise #art

All human plans [are] subject to ruthless revision by Nature, or Fate, or whatever one preferred to call the powers behind the Universe. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#mice-men #planning #plans #unpredictability #men

Sometimes when you go looking for what you want, you run right into what you need. ↗

— Wally Lamb

#life