Dan Farmer Quotes

There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don’t know we don’t know.

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.

Life is strong and fragile. It's a paradox... It's both things, like quantum physics: It's a particle and a wave at the same time. It all exists all together.

By what criterion... can we distinguish among the numberless effects, that are also causes, and among the causes that may, for aught we can know, be also effects, - how can we distinguish which are the means and which are the ends?

Each person is a link, weak or strong, in an endless chain.

The known is finite, the unknown is infinite.

The world we live in is made of an immensely complex and mysterious tissue about which we know very little and which we must treat

… history turns out as always to be too messy, contingent and subject to the vagaries of human agency to be slotted into neat boxes.

History is messy, undetermined, and layered.

So long as no one knows everything about you, you have resources you can call upon for which no one is really prepared.

The fact that everything ever works perfectly together, anybody who tells you that is pulling your leg.

The unknown is very appealing to me. I like to be surprised. I love the idea I might know less at the end of reading something than I do at the beginning.

The world is a complex place.

Everybody agreed I had all this talent, but I didn't know what to make of it.

Far from feeling dwarfed by the vast reaches and energy of the cosmos, what we really learn is that we are the most remarkable and complicated product of cosmic evolution, and our potential is unlimited.

The more complex the network is, the more complex its pattern of interconnections, the more resilient it will be.

There are no simple answers in life. There is a good and bad in everyone and everything. No decision is made without consequence. No road is taken that doesn't lead to another. What's important is that those roads always be kept open, for there's no telling what wonder they might lead to.

It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order - and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order.

You said we all want there to be more than this! Well, there's always more than this. There's always something you don't know.

You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.

Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.

No one has the answer: we are answer and question.

Who knows what may lie around the next corner? There may be a window somewhere ahead. It may look out on a field of sunflowers.

Life is a thread that someone entangled.

Everything is deeply intertwingled.