Literary References for Uncertainty Analysis

If you need a quote about uncertainty (and uncertainty analysis) for a slide, article, paper, etc…

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”

Thornton Wilder, The Eighth Day

being—for what being can be stranger than oneself, or act more inexplicably?

Gene Wolfe • The Urth of the New Sun: The sequel to 'The Book of the New Sun'

I began to walk, fearing a hundred things that would never harm me and utterly ignorant of the real risks I ran.