Literary References for Uncertainty Analysis
If you need a quote about uncertainty (and uncertainty analysis) for a slide, article, paper, etc…
by Michael Schaffner · updated 3mo ago
Literary References for Uncertainty Analysis
If you need a quote about uncertainty (and uncertainty analysis) for a slide, article, paper, etc…
by Michael Schaffner · updated 3mo ago
Our ability to make the most out of uncertainty is what creates the most potential value. We should be fueled not by a desire for a quick catharsis but by intrigue. Where certainty ends, progress begins. Our obsession with certainty has another side effect. It distorts our vision through a set of funhouse mirrors called unknown knowns.
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In a way, these things they’d gathered were an illusion. A way to reassure themselves that they were doing something to prepare.
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Yet, despite a tremendous increase in available facts, there were remarkably few insights.
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Linearity is an artificial way of viewing the world. Real life isn’t a series of interconnected events occurring one after another like beads strung on a necklace.
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‘this is indeed a meeting which is calculated to impress the mind with a sense of the instability and uncertainty of all human—in short, it is a most extraordinary meeting.
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Life is uncertainty and struggle, choice and change; one who knew how her life was woven into the Pattern as well as she knew how a thread was laid into a carpet would have the life of an animal. If she did not go mad. Humankind is made for uncertainty, struggle, choice and change.”
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Wise Woman of the Aiel
‘Anyone,’ said the other, ‘except the Fools at the Top could of course have foreseen it from the word go.’
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