During the period that Richardson explores in "A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932," the artist rejected any predictable idea of stylistic unity, perhaps even the possibility of stylistic coherence.
A consistent schedule also gives employees a more predictable idea of how long their commute takes.
We spent a month there and I headed back to Europe, but my friends – Yassin, Arthur and Louis-Guillaume – crossed the border to the Democratic Republic of Congo and came up with the totally predictable idea of starting their own Congolese bus company, the "Amani Express", which translates to Peace Express in English.
Then I think what it would take to make me keep listening and it's always the same thing: something surprising, something I couldn't have guessed, a break from the steady stream of predictable ideas hammered home by a lifetime of songs, movies and books.
Although he belongs to the complicit ruling party, he exploits predictable ideas about his continent's heart of darkness to tell a morally unambiguous tale.
That kind of education might help designers to dig deeper, like using as inspiration the spiders' webs of electric wires spun across the city or the remnants of Portuguese colonial architecture rather than more predictable ideas taken from nature — although fragile butterfly wings were used in broken patterns to great effect by Lanre Da Silva-Ajayi for her LDA label.
There's the stilted, bulky dialogue, through which the characters deliver loads of exposition, recrimination, unhidden bias, and think-piece jargon without the slightest hint of subtlety or irony; there is little apparent effort on the part of the playwright to make them anything more than avatars for righteous, revanchist, clueless, and always predictable ideas.
The sort of people who will be pissed off are the sort of people that are very happy to be working on a very small, almost ghetto existence within a particular genre of thought, a particular genre of action, a particular genre of behavior, and particularly a predictable set of political ideas.
He said he was attracted by the low interest rate for a fixed-rate loan; he planned to go into business for himself after graduation, he said, and liked the idea of having a predictable monthly payment.
I've always worked at companies where we believed that an original idea will outshine a predictable one in the end; and that it can make up for not having the biggest budget as well.
That brings me to Mr Miliband's deepest weakness, which is a lack of interest in innovation or ideas from outside a predictable menu of state intervention.
