Unpredictability Quotes

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
Delicious Ambiguity.”
― Gilda Radner

“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, 2010: Odyssey Two

“Life is like the oil within a lamp. It can be measured, but the pace at which it burns depends on how the dial is turned day by day, how bright and fierce the flame. And there is no predicting whether the lamp might be knocked to the ground and shatter, when it could have blazed on a great while longer. Such is the unpredictability of life.”
― Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns

“In fiction: we find the predictable boring. In real life: we find the unpredictable terrifying.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Life's unpredictability often resonates with our thoughts as we live in the face of permanent uncertainty. But we must recognize that we cannot predict every possible future and should remain flexible and responsive to change. Life is dynamic and requires us to adapt. ("Life had taken them by Surprise “)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“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 Dyson

“We live in a society and a culture and an economic model that tries to make everything look right. Look at computers. Why are they all putty-colored or off-fucking-white? You make something off-white or beige because you are afraid to use any other color – because you don’t want to offend anybody. But by definition, when you make something no one hates, no one loves it. So I am interested in imperfections, quirkiness, insanity, unpredictability. That’s what we really pay attention to anyway. We don’t talk about planes flying; we talk about them crashing.”
― Tibor Kalman

“One does not have to be a philosopher to be a successful artist, but he does have to be an artist to be a successful philosopher. His nature is to view the world in an unpredictable albeit useful light.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“But as de old folks always say, Ah'm born but Ah ain't dead. No tellin' whut Ah'm liable tuh do yet.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“The fatal misconception behind brainstorming is that there is a particular script we should all follow in group interactions.... [W]hen the composition of the group is right—enough people with different perspectives running into one another in unpredictable ways—the group dynamic will take care of itself. All these errant discussions add up. In fact, they may even be the most essential part of the creative process. Although such conversations will occasionally be unpleasant—not everyone is always in the mood for small talk or criticism—that doesn’t mean that they can be avoided. The most creative spaces are those which hurl us together. It is the human friction that makes the sparks.”
― Jonah Lehrer

“Imagine navigating uncharted waters with a compass calibrated for the unpredictable.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“An artistic perspective will jab at you from a different angle; its logic comes like a pitcher with a curveball.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“In an unknown situation, humility about one’s knowledge is paramount.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“Foresight does not hold a crystal ball. It prepares you for the swerves. The future of prediction is imagination.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“We are not helpless victims unable to make decisions - we have the power to shape our own futures.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“Uncertainty is an inherent trait of the future.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“Metaruptions cause widespread and self-perpetuating effects that extend beyond their initial disruptions.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“Physically agile, this squishy strategist and tentacled tactician uses its intelligence and agency to intuit situations, anticipate outcomes, invent solutions, and improvise, remaining relevant for nearly 300 million years.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“Metaruptions cause widespread, self-perpetuating effects that extend beyond their initial disruptions. As early changes spill over, impacts combine, propagate, and modify other elements within the system. Imagining the interplay of metaruptions is a creative endeavour, not a number-crunching exercise.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“To contrast Naisbitt’s megatrends, the Disruptive Futures Institute coined the term “metaruptions”. A metaruption is a multidimensional family of systemic disruptions.... Metaruptions cause widespread and self-perpetuating effects that extend beyond their initial disruptions.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“Despite the unpredictability of our complex world, focusing on constants is still insightful. Relative to the variabilities of change, the unwavering direction and consistent rhythm of constants stand out.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“No exploration of the past should be confused with a prediction.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“As we face inseparable technological and existential conditions, we enter an era of Techistentialism. AI will increasingly provide insights that enable more-informed predictive decision-making, humans should remain wary of an inadvertent reliance on prescriptive algorithms dictating specific decisions. Complex and uncertain environments inherently involve unknown unknowns; these are situations where we need to be agile despite the lack of immediate answers.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“Our navigational toolbox equips us with compasses calibrated for the unpredictable.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“Only the monsters down here were most definitely not nice, and trying to cuddle one would be dangerous, like kissing a piranha”
― Duncan Ralston, Where the Monsters Live

“Some folks are predictably unpredictable.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, BECOME: Unleash the Power of Moral Character and Be Proud of the Life You Choose

“Every country has its myths, and one that successful Indians liked to indulge was a romance of instability and adaptation—the idea that their country’s rapid rise derived in part from the chaotic unpredictability of daily life. […] In India, a land of few safe assumptions, chronic uncertainty was said to have helped produce a nation of quick-witted, creative problem-solvers. Among the poor, there was no doubt that instability fostered ingenuity, but over time the lack of a link between effort and result could become debilitating.”
― Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

“Cette plage aurait pu être une fin (en soi). Sauf qu'un copain m'a un jour écrit : « Rien n'est tracé dans la vie ».”
― Élodie Font, Coming In

“What changes life is never planned, and that is the true beauty of existence.”
― Liora-Elber H. Rivory, The Art of Connection: Rediscovering Ourselves Through Life’s Unpredictability

“Unpredictability + Diabolicalness = Twofold bad. Unpredictability + Kindheartedness = Twofold good.”
― Sino Melo