Evgeny Morozov Quotes

Some people only work to recorded music because it's so reliable and exactly the same every time, which is exactly why I don't.

It doesn't need to be the same every day, doesn't need to be the same shower I use, the same restaurant I go to, the same hour I go to sleep. I've always been very flexible. I don't care if I practice at nine in the morning or 10 P.M.

Science is defined in various ways, but today it is generally restricted to something which is experimental, which is repeatable, which can be predicted, and which is falsifiable.

It can be boring to see the same players winning every time.

You can't allow people freedom and then change your mind when the things don't go your way.

Perhaps one day earthquakes, hurricanes and financial crashes will all be predictable. But we don't have to wait until then for seismology, meteorology and economics to become sciences; they already are.

If you only took on roles that had the same qualities, then I suppose it might make a critic feel better, if he can see some kind of bedrock. Perhaps that's the old definition of a star, someone who's always going to come up with the same goods. But it intimates limitation to me and I don't want to think of the job like that.

You can build a statistical model and that's all well and good, but if you're dealing with a new type of financial instrument, for example, or a new type of situation - then the choices you're making are pretty arbitrary in a lot of respects.

As soon as things become predictable, they become boring.

I like having a routine, because everything else... is so unpredictable.

Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future.

No, it's funny, when I eat out it's not typically in the kind of restaurants people might imagine.

Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.

I am incredibly bad at predicting the future; I am only smart enough to observe the present and listen to my intuition about tendencies.

Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.

I'm a lousy predictor of the future.

I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

I find that stability is good for my creativity.

Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.

Some things, like the orbits of the planets, can be calculated far into the future. But that's atypical. In most contexts, there is a limit. Even the most fine-grained computation can only forecast British weather a few days ahead. There are limits to what can ever be learned about the future, however powerful computers become.

I don't think that one day really relates to the next day in life.

I'm a creature of habit. I go to restaurants all the time and stuff.

I do better with routines and predictability. I don't react well when there's a sudden change in the schedule.

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.

I don't do anything the same every day. Discipline is tough for a guy who is a rebel.