Literary References for Uncertainty Analysis
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Literary References for Uncertainty Analysis
For there is a real connection between such catastrophes and a certain frame of mind which refuses to expect them.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
if they waited until they were so wise as to make no mistakes before they acted, they waited forever.
Gene Wolfe • Nightside The Long Sun: The First Volume of the Book of the Long Sun
It’s as if the future is a shattering window. The further you look, the more pieces that window breaks into. The near future can be anticipated, but the distant future … I can only guess.”
Brandon Sanderson • The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, Book 1)
source: UK’s Office of Budget Responsibility
We might be more optimistic if we recognized that we do not have to solve all of these problems. Our essential task—a big enough one to be sure—is simply to keep open the options for the future or perhaps even to broaden them a bit by creating new variety and new niches.
Herbert A. Simon • The Sciences of the Artificial
"Desire nothing for thyself, seek nothing, be not anxious or envious. Man's future and thy own fate must remain hidden from thee, but live so that thou mayest be ready for anything. If it be God's will to prove thee in the duties of marriage, be ready to fulfill His will."
Leo Tolstoy • War and Peace
Thornton Wilder, The Eighth Day
“But there is only one history…all other beginnings and endings are arbitrary conventions, diffusing petty comfort or petty despair.”
“It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.”
Thornton Wilder, The Eighth Day
“There was always hope that in talk, talk, talk he could alter the past, conjure the future, and impose an estimable image of himself upon the present.”
Thornton Wilder, The Eighth Day
“Yes, everything’s hopeless, but we are the slaves of hope”