Boyan Slat Quotes

Life doesn't always give us what we are expecting.

The older I get, the more I'm surprised with life. Things don't end up the way you think they will.

The thing about the future is that it never feels the way we thought it would.

Nothing works until it does. Nobody knows anything. You don't know what people are going to respond to. People are always surprised by stuff.

Life is an aggregate of experience, which continually surprises us.

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.

Life isn't a science. We make it up as we go.

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.

There is an element of luck, there is an element of trial and error, sometimes you fail, sometimes you succeed. It's not as beautifully simple as it may seem when we are talking about it.

Who likes surprises? Nobody I know likes surprises. But facts change on the ground.

Much of what we're going to try will not work, and much of what does work will do so for unanticipated reasons.

You're not always going to have a perfect day. You're not always going to have the day that you envision.

Things are always different from what they might be.

I don't think things are ever exactly the way one expects, and I don't think things are ever the way one assumes they are at the moment. What I actually think is that one has no idea of what things are like, ever.

Many of the things which can never be, often are.

Things never happen exactly how you think they will.

We almost manage to forget that things happen that we don't anticipate.

Life is so unlike theory.

History is full of times when the inevitable front-runner is inevitable right up until he or she is no longer inevitable.

I don't know what's going to happen in life, so I don't think it's fair that I know what's going to happen in 'Homeland.'

People never know what they want, though everyone says they do. If they did, nobody would ever be surprised.

If you ask me a question, don't tell me what the question is in advance, 'cause I'd rather not know.

Unforeseen surprises are the rule in science, not the exception. Remember: Stuff happens.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, but that's what we face when we're dealing with improvisation.

The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.