Literary References for Uncertainty Analysis
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Literary References for Uncertainty Analysis
Predicting world state 10 years out is difficult
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'
VALUING IS MAN'S EMOTIONAL REACTION TO THE VARIOUS STATES OF HIS ENVIRONMENT, BOTH THAT OF THE EXTERNAL WORLD AND THAT OF THE PHYSIOLOGICAL CONDITIONS OF HIS OWN BODY.
LUDWIG VON MISES
Chesterton, Orthodoxy
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.”
Robert Jordan • The Shadow Rising
Wise Woman of the Aiel
For that dim and mostly comfortable picture of a future which hovers before most men’s eyes had vanished.
C. S. Lewis • The Dark Tower: And Other Stories
‘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.
Charles Dickens • David Copperfield
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
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.”