Vinge himself expected the singularity to happen between 2005 and 2030.
No one, not even the man himself, expected Donald Trump to get the Republican presidential nomination in 2016.
Although seeded second, in deference to his ATP ranking, nobody except the man himself expected him to reach the final.
He had received a diagnosis of lymphoma, but even so, this swift and sudden death was completely unexpected, a turn that nobody, least of all himself, expected.
When John Redwood, then secretary of state for Wales, found himself expected to sing the Welsh national anthem, he mumbled his way through, panic flitting across his face.
Donald Trump, who launched his campaign a year ago, turned out to be a much better primary candidate than many people, including possibly he himself, expected.
Hamann himself expected back then that he would spend another season assisting Sven-Goran Eriksson at Leicester City; but Lynch and Glennon were deeply concerned and vulnerable.
But almost no one in the audience, including Obama himself, expected that a little over two years later he would be a frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Just as his coach, his teammates and, most important, Curtis Martin himself expected, he picked up a helmet on the sideline today, strode into the huddle and ran with the Jets' first team for the first time all week.
MEXICO CITY — Roberta Garza, a Mexican newspaper editor from a prominent family, recalls how the Rev. Marcial Maciel Degollado would stare into the eyes of Mexico's elite and go into a very persuasive fund-raising pitch: God himself expected them to share their wealth.
The man who everyone (including himself) expected to win the 1992 election, only to lose it as the Tory vote strengthened in the last few days of the campaign.
