Literary References for Uncertainty Analysis
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Literary References for Uncertainty Analysis
"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
Yet, despite a tremendous increase in available facts, there were remarkably few insights.
Stephen King • The Dark Tower I
Thornton Wilder, The Eighth Day
“Yes, everything’s hopeless, but we are the slaves of hope”
when we face uncertainty, we should be open to the quixotic and the unconventional.
Martin Shaw • Navigating the Mysteries
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]
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
In a way, these things they’d gathered were an illusion. A way to reassure themselves that they were doing something to prepare.
Brandon Sanderson • Towers of Midnight (The Wheel of Time Book 13)
I began to walk, fearing a hundred things that would never harm me and utterly ignorant of the real risks I ran.
Gene Wolfe • The Urth of the New Sun: The sequel to 'The Book of the New Sun'
For that dim and mostly comfortable picture of a future which hovers before most men’s eyes had vanished.