#predictable

Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation. ↗

— Gail Sheehy

#changes #deny #only #own #possible

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

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. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#air #air conditioning #almost #also #appeared

Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#each #humanity #itself #live #most

I expected to be shot at any moment and if they had done I would have understood, that they couldn't take risks with someone foolhardy or so unpredictable. ↗

— Laurie Lee

#done #expected #foolhardy #had #i

And that format was - we'd been using that format, I guess, since the late '70s, and it was starting to get very predictable. In other words, certain songs would surface in the same points in the set every so often; it was like rotation. ↗

— Phil Lesh

#certain #every #format #get #guess

The predictable thing about 'The Good Wife' is how unpredictable 'The Good Wife' is. ↗

— Archie Panjabi

#good #good wife #how #predictable #thing

Nothing is less predictable than the development of an active scientific field. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

#development #field #less #nothing #predictable

Rain amplifies your mistakes, and water on the track can make your car handle unpredictably. When something unpredictable happens you have to react to it; if you’re reacting at speed, you’re reacting too late. And so you should be afraid. ↗

— Garth Stein

#mistakes #rain #react #speed #unpredictable

Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

#cured #evils #fighting #goals #ignorance