One thing he is certain about is that if not for Next Street, a four-year-old, 22-employee merchant bank with offices in Boston and New York, his development company would have been in big trouble.
Descartes, of course, is a recurring presence in these anthologies, since, like Neo, he attempted to discover what man can be certain about, even if, as he put it, a "malicious demon of the utmost power and cunning has employed all his energies in order to deceive me".
"I'm fairly certain about one thing: if turnout is lower in 2012 than in 2008 (which is not so unlikely), then there will be fewer 'swing voters' turning out," Markus Prior, an associate professor of politics and public affairs at Princeton University, wrote in an e-mail.
Make sure that your certain about their hobby, if not, their present might go wrong!
And if they doubted the radio reports or weren't certain about their governor's knowledge, and if they were still physically strong and mentally steely, then they had to decide -- and decide quickly, before the snows eliminated any choice at all -- whether they wanted to remain in Abdulgan and leave themselves to fate, or whether they wanted to try an escape.
My hero Bertrand Russell said that if you are certain about anything, you're certainly wrong.
Some guardians said they withdrew life support only if they felt certain about what the patient would have wanted.
If anything is certain about the recent discovery of infectious salmon anemia in two wild juvenile salmon in British Columbia, it is the extent of the uncertainties.
No one could be absolutely certain about the validity of the sacraments if the integrity and the very unity of the church, and therefore of the episcopate and priesthood as well, were in doubt.
If anything is certain about this crisis, it is that nothing is certain.
