Unpredictable – Quotes

I’m certainly not interested

I’m certainly not interested in religion for religion’s sake or for some kind of structure or stabilizing force. Religion is supposed to be for God’s sake and God is an unpredictable, wild thing. Ezra Furman

The cat: an animal

The cat: an animal that’s so unpredictable, you can never tell in advance how it will ignore you the next time. Evan Esar

What a dazzlingly generous,

What a dazzlingly generous, gloriously unpredictable book! Maggie Nelson shows us what it means to be real, offering a way of thinking that is as challenging as it is liberating. She invites us to ‘pay homage to the transitive’ and enjoy ‘a becoming in which one never becomes’ Reading The Argonauts made me happier and … Read more

There is no natural

There is no natural phenomenon that is comparable with the sudden and apparently accidentally timed development of science, except perhaps the condensation of a super-saturated gas or the explosion of some unpredictable explosives. Eugene Wigner

I fear that I

I fear that I can no longer travel without technology. Twenty years ago, I loved getting on a bus in West Africa and taking off for a city I’d never been to before, relying on advice from out-of-date travel books and fellow passengers on the bus. Now, I end up using TripAdvisor, Yelp, and Google … Read more

In desire, there must

In desire, there must be some small amount of tension. And that tension comes with the unknown, the unpredictable. You can close yourself off at home and say, Whew, at last I’m in a place where I don’t have to worry, or you can keep yourself open to the mystery and elusiveness of your partner. … Read more

Evolution … is opportunistic,

Evolution … is opportunistic, hence unpredictable. Ernst Mayr

One never finishes learning

One never finishes learning about art. There are always new things to discover. Great works of art seem to look different every time one stands before them. They seem to be as inexhaustible and unpredictable as real human beings. Ernst Gombrich

I believe C++ instills

I believe C++ instills fear in programmers, fear that the interaction of some details causes unpredictable results. Its unmanageable complexity has spawned more fear-preventing tools than any other language, but the solution should have been to create and use a language that does not overload the whole goddamn human brain with irrelevant details. Erik Naggum

Innovation is a bottoms-up,

Innovation is a bottoms-up, decentralized, and unpredictable thing, but that doesn’t mean it cannot be managed. Eric Ries