Paulo Coelho Quotes

Human history is highly nonlinear and unpredictable.

Chaos theory, a more recent invention, is equally fertile ground for those with a bent for abusing sense. It is unfortunately named, for 'chaos' implies randomness. Chaos in the technical sense is not random at all. It is completely determined, but it depends hugely, in strangely hard-to-predict ways, on tiny differences in initial conditions.

There's definitely, definitely, definitely, no logic to human behaviour . . . There's no map And a compass Wouldn't help at all

Most of nature is inherently chaotic. It's not rigidly determined in the old sense. It's not rigidly predictable.

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.

The world is deterministic, but it's chaotic and emergent.

History is totally unpredictable.

History proceeds in zig zags through crooked paths.

Human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries.

Most of the time-- 99 percent of the time-- you just don't know how and why the threads are looped together, and that's okay. Do a good thing and something bad happens. Do a bad thing and something good happens. Do nothing and everything explodes.

To me, all human behavior is unpredictable and, considering man's frailty... and... the ramshackle universe he functions in, it's... all irrational.

You never know why something works or doesn't.

Life just doesn't care about our aspirations, or sadness. It's often random, and it's often stupid and it's often completely unexpected, and the closures and the epiphanies and revelations we end up receiving from life, begrudgingly, rarely turn out to be the ones we thought.

Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos.

You learn that not all things fall into a certain kind of pattern that can be predictable and that can be understandable and that's going to be easy, you know.

I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.

What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.

The world is neither running down nor deterministic, and a strict division of order versus chaos is just wrong.

Zippy accepts chaos as what it is, which is the real order of everything.

With craziness, you can't predict it. There's very little defense you can have on craziness.

We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

History does not repeat itself. Nor does it unfold in cycles. The real future is contingent, rich beyond imagining, a perennial gobsmack, tragic and glorious in equal measure; the pundits' future, spun of 'conventional wisdom,' is only a sucker punch to that common-sense fact.

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.

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.