Controllability Quotes

“It is so much more threatening to have something out of hand than to believe that at any moment I can stop (I started to say "This foolishness") any time I need to.”
― Flora Rheta Schreiber, Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities

“The world is not made up of separate parts operating in isolation. This reductionist view of an understandable, controlled, and predictable world is flawed. And so, the strings, wires, and controls used to manage this illusionary discrete world are obsolete.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume I - Reframing and Navigating Disruption

“You obviously don't have my soul or you wouldn't be trying to make deals.”
― Daniel Nayeri, Another Faust

“Being able to be repeated controllably
is one key element in risk management.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“Wishing the world was predictable an controllable does not make it so, and it might make us disregard what is actually happening”
― Jean G. Boulton