Quote by Eliezer Yudkowsky

“anything that was Infinitely Improbable was actually very likely to happen almost immediately.”

— Douglas Adams

“For an instant Harry imagined... Just for an instant, before his imagination blew a fuse and called an emergency shut down and told him…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

“You see, Harry, after you've been through a few adventures you tend to catch the hang of these things. You start to see the…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

“That left two possibilities, really. Possibility one: Magic was so incredibly opaque, convoluted, and impenetrable, that even though wizards and witches had tried their…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

“What was it Harry used to say? Intuition is only the sum of many small but specific things the brain hasn't managed to put…

— Jo Nesbø

“But what is the sense in forever speculating what might have happened had such and such a moment turned out differently? One could presumably…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“Listening to the news! Again?” “Well, it changes every day, you see,” said Harry.”

— J.K. Rowling

“It's interesting how a random event can change our lives in ways that would be impossible to imagine, isn't it?”

— Kyle Mills

“One event sometimes had infinite ramifications and could change the whole settings of a person's life.”

— Gustave Flaubert

“...that realisation that I was the oddity, the statistical probability, life was predictable.”

— Ruth Dugdall

“Harry felt a great leap of excitement. He didn’t know what he was going to — but it had to be better than what…

— J.K. Rowling

“The ultimate test of an explanation is whether it would have made the event predictable in advance.”

— Daniel Kahneman