{"quotes":[{"text":"Predictability is not how things will go, but how they can go.","author":"Raheel Farooq","tags":["determinism","fate","free-will","philosophy","predictability","probability"],"id":46008,"author_id":"Raheel+Farooq"},{"text":"A number of our scientists boast intelligence but lack wisdom. I find those to be the predictable ones.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["agnosticism","apologetics","atheism","boast","discovery","ignorance","intelligence","knowledge","philosopher","philosophy","predication","predictability","predictable","science","scientist","theism","unpredictability","unpredictable","wisdom"],"id":47100,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"And once again, work is providing us with a comforting sense of normalcy-living and working inside of coding's predictably segmented time/space. Simply grinding away at something makes life feel stable, even though the external particulars of life (like our pay checks, our office, and so forth) are, at best, random.","author":"Douglas Coupland","tags":["control","normalcy","predictability","stability"],"id":71986,"author_id":"Douglas+Coupland"},{"text":"If science could comprehend all phenomena so that eventually in a thoroughly rational society human beings became as predictable as cogs in a machine, then man, driven by this need to know and assert his freedom, would rise up and smash the machine. What the reformers of the Enlightenment, dreaming of a perfect organization of society, had overlooked, Dostoevski saw all too plainly with the novelist's eye: namely, that as modern society becomes more organized and hence more bureaucratized it piles up at its joints petty figures like that of the Underground Man, who beneath their nondescript surface are monsters of frustration and resentment.","author":"William Barrett","tags":["bureaucracy","existentialism","freedom","frustration","pedantry","predictability","resentment","science"],"id":79251,"author_id":"William+Barrett"},{"text":"In fiction: we find the predictable boring. In real life: we find the unpredictable terrifying.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["entertainment","fear","fiction","phobia","predictability","reality","unpredictability","unpredictability-of-life"],"id":80281,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"The future is certain. It is just not known.","author":"Johnny Rich","tags":["certain","certainty","destiny","determinism","fatalism","fate","future","inevitability","knowable","predeterminism","predictability","probability","uncertainty"],"id":142086,"author_id":"Johnny+Rich"},{"text":"(As Plato:) There is nothing superstitious about forcing bad consequences for the hubris of paternalistic utopianism. Humanity should never be frozen into a vision of the best. A creative society must be willing to tolerate some degree of instability because creativity is inherently unstable.","author":"Rebecca Goldstein","tags":["creativity","order","predictability"],"id":185953,"author_id":"Rebecca+Goldstein"},{"text":" Home is not a place. Home is security, predictability, reliability, dependability, safety, permanence combined together. ","author":"Csaba Gabor-B.","tags":["dependability","home","love","people","predictability","relationship","reliability","safefty","security","team-work"],"id":244132,"author_id":"Csaba+Gabor-B."},{"text":"Anything that you cannot sacrifice pins you. Makes you predictable, makes you weak.","author":"Mark Lawrence","tags":["predictability","sacrifice","weakness"],"id":255129,"author_id":"Mark+Lawrence"},{"text":"It was a pity thoughts always ran the easiest way, like water in old ditches.","author":"Walter de la Mare","tags":["predictability","thoughts"],"id":255839,"author_id":"Walter+de+la+Mare"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":21,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}