Eric San Quotes

There's always going to be the circumstances you can't plan for. There's always the unexpected relevance and the serendipity.

Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception.

I think that music at inappropriate times with inappropriate volumes can be the funniest thing ever.

This one fellow I met at the gym. I went out to dinner with him and he said, 'I've been watching you for a year and I never thought you'd go out with me!' Then he fainted at the dinner table. I didn't know what the hell to make of that.

It's funny, I never considered that people are going to see me on the show and maybe stop me on the subway.

As history has shown, pure science research ultimately ends up applying to something. We just don't know it at the time.

Some things don't wind up sounding like you'd expect, which is just as well.

People do all sorts of things impulsively and follow those impulses into strange places.

The world does not have tidy endings. The world does not have neat connections. It is not filled with epiphanies that work perfectly at the moment that you need them.

I think a game hits a high point when it provokes reactions the designer doesn't expect.

The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.

I'm always surprised by things that happen to my work.

That will only happen if I have a bout of amnesia or if I feel like mooning someone in the audience.

There was the scientific and technical progress which couldn't be predicted by the state.

I think there are narratives going on all the time that we think of as tangential - up until they turn out to be deciding factors in our lives.

It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.

Real life is crazier than fiction.

The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.

I have been accused of making people laugh, maybe when it's not appropriate, during scenes.

Significant consequences can begin very inconsequentially. That's one thing that fascinates me. The other thing that fascinates me is how accident can undermine something that's unfolding, something that might have played out differently otherwise.

The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.

One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn't if you knew better.

In world history man’s actions result in something quite different from what he purposes or intends.

All laws have unintended consequences.

One event makes another: what we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens; and time can only prove which is most for our advantage