Warren Buffett Quotes

Randomness scares people. Religion is a way to explain randomness.

We understand tornadoes scientifically, but it still feels supernatural. The randomness makes it feel supernatural.

The crimes that become iconic etch themselves into the collective consciousness because they suggest a frightening truth: that the universe does not rely on cause and effect.

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

Economic theory does not work with human beings. We are far too messy.

That's the world we live in: when it comes to economics, people have emotions; it's not like chemistry or physics.

As I have said before, the daily machinations of the stock market are like a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

People are unpredictable at the end of the day.

You can't predict what's gonna happen, you can't predict if people are going to participate, you can't predict if there'll be interference.

Nature gropes and blunders and performs the crudest acts. There is no steady advance upward. There is no design.

... when I left the stage door and sought my orientation among real people I was in a wilderness of unpredictables in an unchoreographed world.

Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.

The first steps of a creative act are like groping in the dark: random and chaotic, feverish and fearful, a lot of busy-ness with no apparent or definable end in sight.

If everything on earth were rational, nothing would happen.

The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product.

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

I think the randomness by Donald Trump's governing, by tweeting, sloganeering, attacking, will create great chaos in the entire market. I think people will have difficulties in predicting the future. I think capital will recede.

Anything can happen anytime in markets. And no advisor, economist, or TV commentator-and definitely not Charlie nor I-can tell you when chaos will occur. Market forecasters will fill your ear but will never fill your wallet.

The universe is deterministic all right, just like Newton said, I mean it's trying to be, but the only thing going wrong is people fancying people who aren't supposed to be in that part of the plan.

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

Chaos is roving through the system and able to undo, at any point, the best laid plans.

All people are insane. They will do anything at any time, and God help anybody who looks for reasons.

I don't know -- maybe the world has two different kinds of people, and for one kind the world is this completely logical, rice pudding place, and for the other it's all hit-or-miss macaroni gratin.

In the era of big brains, life stories could end up any which way. Look at mine.