#uncertain

Summers was simply a master explainer, able to deftly boil down the complexities of economic and financial, and to put them in terms the non-expert could understand. He was brilliant at cultivating a sense of control, even as events spun far beyond what could be managed with any certainty. He could will into being the confidence that eluded others, those less self-assured and, maybe sensibly, on humbler terms with the world. ↗

— Ron Suskind

#explanation #humility #uncertainty #education

Quantum mechanics brought an unexpected fuzziness into physics because of quantum uncertainty, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. ↗

— Edward Witten

#brought #fuzziness #into #mechanics #physics

Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying. ↗

— J. Paul Getty

#business #dull #element #eminently #even

We have some worse scenarios for which we need to prepare as companies. For the moment, we're planning for the worst, and the worst is now, and the car market is down more than 15 percent in France. There is so much uncertainty. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#companies #down #france #market #moment

In a difficult and uncertain environment, Renault remains on track to meet its 2012 objective. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#environment #meet #objective #remains #track

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability. ↗

— William Osler

#medicine #probability #science #uncertainty

Uncertainty's not good for anybody. ↗

— Roger Goodell

#good #uncertainty

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty. ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

#edge #knowledge #uncertainty #unending

When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may be good, but what is good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#conflict #constant #cooperation #does #frustrated

I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic. ↗

— George Crumb

#confused #described #frequently #hear #i