Alternative Outcome Quotes

I often wonder what would have happened to me if I hadn't made that decision. I suppose I would have sunk. I suppose I would have found some kind of hole and tried to hide or pass. After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities. I would have hidden in my hole and been crippled by my sentimentality, doing what I was doing, and doing it well, but always looking for the wailing wall. And I would never have seen the world as the rich place that it is. You wouldn't have seen me here in Africa, doing what I do.

Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.

Probability is not about the odds, but about the belief in the existence of an alternative outcome, cause, or motive.

Could I have walked out then? If I had, Terry wouldn't have accepted the job.

If I had been brought up in America, I think I would still have had the same sort of job as a writer.

Well, I grew up in a certain way, through the experiences that I had, so I don't know how I would have turned out had things been different.

If I hadn't gone to Stanford, I'd be working at P&G now.