Genesis P-Orridge Quotes

If you throw the ball 60 times, you are going to make miss some of them. That kind of happens.

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.

There is always something to upset the most careful of human calculations.

The arrow will not always find the mark intended.

Mr. Feld was right; life was like baseball, filled with loss and error, with bad hops and wild pitches, a game in which even champions lost almost as often as they won, and even the best hitters were put out seventy percent of the time.

If we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, there's still a 30% chance we're going to get it wrong.

Some you win some you lose.

People don't realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of what causes what, but that's as far as we go. And I've had a very successful career as a forecaster, starting in 1948 forward. The number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that.

The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.

In science, nothing is ever 100% proven.

Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today's winners are tomorrow's blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope.

The game is a game, and things happen, and you can't always execute your plan as perfectly as you'd like to.

It's tough never being right.

Nobody gets lucky all the time. Nobody can win all the time. Nobody's a robot. Nobody's perfect.

It is better to be approximately right than to be precisely wrong.

Any pick you make, or any player you sign, something can go wrong.

No one can escape the iron rule that once you make a forecast, you know you're going to be wrong; you just don't know when and in which direction!

I'm going to miss shots. I'm going to make plenty of mistakes. It's not going to be perfect.

There are no guarantees. If you spent money, it's no guarantee you win stuff.

Bad things can happen even to the best players.

Finally, I would remind you to notice where the claim of consensus is invoked. Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough. Nobody says the consensus of scientists agrees that E=mc2. Nobody says the consensus is that the sun is 93 million miles away. It would never occur to anyone to speak that way.

Even the best planning is not so omniscient as to get it right the first time.

A risk is a chance you take; if it fails you can recover. A gamble is a chance taken; if it fails, recovery is impossible.

Science is at no moment quite right, but it is seldom quite wrong, and has, as a rule, a better chance of being right than the theories of the unscientific. It is, therefore, rational to accept it hypothetically.

The point is [...] that you never know whether you've lost until you've lost. Anything can happen.