Expected Outcome Quotes

This death sentence is not surprising. It had to be.

The motors I build there were exactly as I imagined them. I made no attempt to improve the design, but merely reproduced the pictures as they appeared to my vision and the operation was always as I expected.

Regardless of any deviations, it was clear I was supposed to end up in math and physics.

And, quite frankly, I fully expected to be charged with murder, because they weren't charging anybody. I did it in terms of, I felt like I was throwing down the gauntlet saying look, this is what happened. There's a family out there that needed to know what happened.

The Olympic gold was like going to a theater and seeing a movie that had the ending you expected. But you left the theater thinking, 'You know, that was a good movie.'

For me, coming to work every day has turned out to be exactly what I hoped it would be.

If I die young, everybody's going to say they saw it coming.

It was always assumed that I would go to college.

The presumption that an extant mode is efficient if the expected net gain is negative can nevertheless be rebutted by showing that the obstacles to implementing an otherwise superior feasible alternative are 'unfair.'

Well, that's what it was bloody well designed to do, wasn't it?

That's what I was supposed to say.

That is probable which for the most part usually comes to pass, or which is a part of the ordinary beliefs of mankind.

I cannot tell you how long it takes for your exercise to work. If you haven't seen any results in a year or six months you're doing something wrong.

To a modern mind, it is difficult to feel enthusiastic about a virtuous life if nothing is going to be achieved by it.

I would say, and this sounds like a rather immodest thing to say, but the truth is it's probably the most amazing thing of all, it's pretty much exactly what I thought we were going to make, what I hoped we'd make.

My donors have always tended to do much better than expected.

The payoff of a human venture is, in general, inversely proportional to what it is expected to be.

It was one of those goals that's invariably a goal.

You put a lot of work into something, a lot of time, a lot of sacrifices, and the time you put in, you want the same result from it.

... it is a fundamental principle of testing that you must know in advance the answer each test case is supposed to produce. If you don't, you are not testing; you are experimenting.