Matthew Tobin Anderson Quotes

I see the world in very fluid, contradictory, emerging, interconnected terms, and with that kind of circuitry I just don't feel the need to say what is going to happen or will not happen.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.

The world is infinitely more complex than it appeared to me 15 years ago.

The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.

People are looking for certainty. The more complex the world becomes, the more people look for people to give them certainty and tell them what to do. During the past few years of actively thinking about this, there is one thing that I have accepted: certainty is not out there. There is not one strategy to follow, and that's OK.

Things are fluid in this world, and if you don't remain fluid, you get lost in the sauce.

Nature can always be more complicated than we imagine.

I'm at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.

The major problem for us in the 21st century is to be comfortable with ambiguity.

Finality, Sir, is not the language of politics.

We know that the hardest work is to keep yourself open to the world that technology hasn't tamed.

Change never bothers me, not really.

Anything can happen, and you have to be able to understand the reality of the world that we live in.

Let us not be afraid of decreasing. It is like the moon, we see the moon increasing and decreasing, but it is always the moon.

This old world keeps spinnin’ round; It’s a wonder tall trees ain’t layin’ down.

The whole world turns upside down in ten years, but you turn upside down with it.

You have to move forward. It's constantly changing. Everything changes and everything falls apart. You have to be nimble and on your toes and accessible to it all. Not everyone is on board with this.

The world is constantly changing. You're constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark, and get off your spot and take that knowledge you have not to fix yourself into a place but to keep going.

I am living proof that uncertainty is vastly underrated and often times a blessing in disguise.

A little uncertainty is good for everyone.

To succeed in this world, you have to change all the time.

There are just lots of possibilities in the world...I need to keep my mind open for what could happen and not decide that the world is hopeless if what I want to happen doesn't happen. Because something else great might happen in between.

To me Donnie Darko was about adolescence. And about how, as soon as you start to grow up and you sort of move out into the world, you realize everything is so trippy. That anything can be anything.

Never, never, never think - that's one lesson you should have in life. Never think that lack of variability is stability.