I wondered if you'd heard me correctly at the time, so I was careful to make a mental note of what I'd said (I try to choose my words with extra
precision at moments like those, the product no doubt of a youth mis - spent in the Texas Legislature).
We can never measure the values of its millions of defining parameters
at any chosen
moment to a sufficient
precision to permit reliable projection of the bifurcations, or Sandy -
like departures from an apparently steady state, that are inherent in the evolution of all objects that behave chaotically.