Literary References for Uncertainty Analysis

If you need a quote about uncertainty (and uncertainty analysis) for a slide, article, paper, etc…

but the Gods On man bestow not all their gifts at once;

Homer • The Iliad

"Expect not, Juno, all my mind to know; My wife thou art, yet would such knowledge be Too much for thee; whate'er I deem it fit That thou shouldst know, nor God nor man shall hear Before thee; but what I in secret plan, Seek not to know, nor curiously inquire."

Homer • The Iliad

Predicting ten years into the future is hard https://t.co/kh3mDAOIgd

Peter Wildeford 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇫🇷

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Predicting world state 10 years out is difficult

Linearity is an artificial way of viewing the world. Real life isn’t a series of interconnected events occurring one after another like beads strung on a necklace.

Michael Crichton • Jurassic Park: A Novel

when we face uncertainty, we should be open to the quixotic and the unconventional.

Emergence Magazine • Navigating the Mysteries

VALUING IS MAN'S EMOTIONAL REACTION TO THE VARIOUS STATES OF HIS ENVIRONMENT, BOTH THAT OF THE EXTERNAL WORLD AND THAT OF THE PHYSIOLOGICAL CONDITIONS OF HIS OWN BODY.

LUDWIG VON MISES

Life is uncertainty and struggle, choice and change; one who knew how her life was woven into the Pattern as well as she knew how a thread was laid into a carpet would have the life of an animal. If she did not go mad. Humankind is made for uncertainty, struggle, choice and change.”

Robert Jordan • The Shadow Rising

Wise Woman of the Aiel

For that dim and mostly comfortable picture of a future which hovers before most men’s eyes had vanished.

Homer • The Iliad

Homer • The Iliad

Michael Crichton • Jurassic Park: A Novel

Emergence Magazine • Navigating the Mysteries

Robert Jordan • The Shadow Rising

C. S. Lewis • The Dark Tower: And Other Stories