Euny Hong Quotes

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

If you throw the ball 60 times, you are going to make miss some of them. That kind of happens.

Even stopped clocks are right twice a day.

Even a broken clock gets it right occasionally.

A broken clock is right two times a day.

If it had been what was supposed to happen, it would have happened.

Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

I have a Woody Allen Jewish attitude to life: that it's all going to be disastrous. That it hasn't all been that way is simply down to some random quirk of fate.

There are good people who are dealt a bad hand by fate, and bad people who live long, comfortable, privileged lives. A small twist of fate can save or end a life; random chance is a permanent, powerful player in each of our lives, and in human history as well.

What are prophecies? Don't we hear them every day of the week? And if one comes true there may be seven blind and come to nothing.

Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.

You can predict all you want, but everybody knows what predictions get you.

Predictions are preposterous.

It seems hopelessly improbable that any particular rules accidentally led to the miracle of intelligent life. Nevertheless, this is exactly what most physicists have believed: intelligent life is a purely serendipitous consequence of physical principles that have nothing to do with our own existence.

When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance.

In the intelligence business you are almost never completely wrong or completely right.

It's the ability to foretell what will happen tomorrow, next month, and next year --- and to explain afterward why it didn't happen.

It is better to be approximately right than to be precisely wrong.

The ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year – and to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

No one can escape the iron rule that once you make a forecast, you know you're going to be wrong; you just don't know when and in which direction!

Sometimes you hit the ball on target and sometimes you don't.

Doesn't assuming that an intelligence created these perfect conditions require far less faith than believing that a life-sustaining Earth just happened to beat the inconceivable odds to come into being?

Of course it's all luck.

And yet.. even if you had been right, it would only have been by accident. A broken clock is right two times a day.