Top 100 Quotes About Randomness
#1. EVEN RANDOMNESS IS WITHIN A SET OF PARAMETERS; THRESHOLDS ...
Clyde DeSouza
#2. Do me a favor." "Don't lick your seat belt?" Ash's expression was total confusion. "Huh? where did that randomness come from?
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#3. Wear your best for your execution and stand dignified. Your last recourse against randomness is how you act - if you can't control outcomes, you can control the elegance of your behaviour. You will always have the last word.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#4. The epiphany I had in my career in randomness came when I understood that I was not intelligent enough, nor strong enough, to even try to fight my emotions.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#5. When some systems are stuck in a dangerous impasse, randomness and only randomness can unlock them and set them free.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#6. Order is the law of nature, the universal trend, the cosmic direction. If time is an arrow, that arrow points toward order. The future is pattern, organization, union, intensification; the past, randomness, confusion, disintegration, dissipation.
Alan Lightman
#7. The illusion of randomness gradually disappears as the skill in chart reading improves.
John Murphy
#8. This is the central illusion in life: that randomness is risky, that it is a bad thing - and that eliminating randomness is done by eliminating randomness.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#9. to work to shape it. But if you expect an indefinite future ruled by randomness, you'll give up on trying to master it.
Peter Thiel
#10. Yet again, isn't there something terrible in randomness - the idea that at the very bottom of its calculations, real depravity has no master plan of any kind, it's just a dreamy whim that slides out of people when they are trapped or bored or too lazy to analyze their own mania.
Aeschylus
#11. Before my unfeeling eyes, the repressed bitterness of my whole life peels off the suit of natural joy it wears in the prolonged randomness of every day. I realize that I'm always sad, however happy or content I may often feel. And the part of me that realizes this stands a little behind me ...
Fernando Pessoa
#13. How does individual randomness turn into collective regularity? Easy - the odds demand it. The
Anonymous
#14. We humans are the victims of an asymmetry in the perception of random events. We attribute our successes to our skills, and our failures to external events outside our control, namely to randomness.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#15. No matter how sophisticated our choices, how good we are at dominating the odds, randomness will have the last word.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#16. Computers are only capable of a certain kind of randomness because computers are finite devices.
Tristan Perich
#17. The best poetry has its roots in the subconscious to a great degree. Youth, naivety, reliance on instinct more than learning and method, a sense of freedom and play, even trust in randomness, is necessary to the making of a poem.
May Swenson
#18. My work reflects a relationship to the built world that shifts between control and randomness, strangeness and beauty, comfort and fear.
David Allee
#19. Feelings of depression; feelings of frustration; feelings of emptiness in the face of all this randomness - done down by the haphazard, yet again.
William Boyd
#20. We choose to believe in Ma'at. We create order out of chaos, beauty out of ugly randomness. That's what Egypt is all about.
Rick Riordan
#21. With randomness it is very unlikely to be embarrassed, but even if you get embarrassed, you can't replicate it.
Carl Pomerance
#22. Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.
James Gleick
#23. We try to see patterns, to judge the events in our lives as rewards or punishment, parse things into good and evil. But there is a randomness to life that is beyond analysis...
William Eisner
#24. It is as if the mission of modernity was to squeeze every drop of variability and randomness out of life - with the ironic result of making the world a lot more unpredictable, as if the goddesses of chance wanted to have the last word.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#25. There (is) order and even great beauty in what looks like total chaos. If we look closely enough at the randomness around us, patterns will start to emerge.
Aaron Sorkin
#26. I didn't want her to be like me, robbed of innocence and idealism, baptized in the bloody waters of randomness and cruelty, the fabric of trust forever torn.
Patricia Cornwell
#27. There's randomness and there's the demand and supply ratio. And both of these combine to stop the average man from making it big. More it happens, more is our guy forced to believe in luck. Decades, my friend, you know what that does to a man.
Daya Kudari
#28. Nature almost surely operates by combining chance with necessity, randomness with determinism ...
Eric Chaisson
#29. So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.
Sidney Poitier
#30. The threads of circumstance that lead to tomorrow are so tenuous that all the fussing and worrying about decisions is futile compared to the pure randomness of existence.
Nick Bantock
#31. People believe the only alternative to randomness is intelligent design.
Richard Dawkins
#32. In a free economy, a high degree of apparent randomness does not mean actual randomness. An apparently random pattern is evidence not of purposelessness but of an entrepreneurial economy full of creative surprises.
George Gilder
#33. In the presence of randomness, regular patterns can only be mirages.
Daniel Kahneman
#34. It had acquired a name, Spatters, that reflected the desultory randomness of its outlines: the whole stinking shanty-town seemed to have dribbled like shit from the sky.
China Mieville
#35. I am amazed at the randomness, the comedy, and the faith that brings us all together and makes us hold on.
David Levithan
#36. The two go hand in hand like a dance: chance flirts with necessity, randomness with determinism. To be sure, it is from this interchange that novelty and creativity arise in Nature, thereby yielding unique forms and novel structures.
Eric Chaisson
#37. Strategy is methodical, but the one who steers chaos and randomness can steer God.
Lionel Suggs
#38. The terror of it was in the randomness. The brutality and the senseless way they chose their victims, while leaving so many witnesses to spread the fear. No one was safe. No one was ever safe.
Marissa Meyer
#39. To my mind, randomness is not just inevitable; it is part of the beauty of life. Acknowledging it and appreciating it helps us respond constructively when we are surprised.
Ed Catmull
#40. Our intuitions about randomness are biased towards thinking it is a good deal more ordered than it really is.
Anonymous
#41. These houses had been plunked down with an alarming randomness
unevenly spaced, on crooked lines, like whoever had designed the place had said, We'll just follow this cat, and wherever he sits down, we'll build something.
Maureen Johnson
#42. Freedom has to be in tension with something, or it's just randomness.
David Graeber
#43. While in theory randomness is an intrinsic property, in practice, randomness is incomplete information.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#44. Fundamentally, your brain doesn't like or want to believe in randomness. It always believes you have some control, even when you don't.
It may be delusional but we're happier deluded. And delusion ironically makes us perform better on average.
Eric Barker
#45. We need myths to get by. We need story; otherwise the tremendous randomness of experience overwhelms us. Story is what penetrates.
Robert Coover
#46. Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
Wally Lamb
#47. The illusion that humans possess free will is compounded by the inherent randomness of the universe. Chaos disguised as freedom of choice ...
Henry Lindell
#48. Now Sally plunged her abruptly into the full strangeness of this place, with its rot and randomness rooting towers taller than any in Tokyo, corporate obelisks that pierced the sooty lacework of overlapping domes.
William Gibson
#49. We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this topography.
Michael Polanyi
#50. Well now you're contradicting yourself. With balance there cannot be chaos. With randomness there can be no punishment. You're pleading for punishment in hopes that you'll see your God. Without punishment there is no God. If there is balance then there is your Lord. If balance then afterlife.
Dave Eggers
#51. I've always been a pretty good researcher, said Bronwyn modestly.
Oh, so that we share, thought Myfanwy, but you didn't inherit the power to make people shit themselves. You've got to love the randomness of genetics.
Daniel O'Malley
#52. We talk often about being in a media-saturated society, and we are surrounded by image streams. But it's nihilistic. There's a real randomness to all of it.
Cynthia Daignault
#53. ...we are too brainwashed by notions of causality and we think that it is smarter to say because than to accept randomness.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#54. if events are random, we are not in control, and if we are in control of events, they are not random. There is therefore a fundamental clash between our need to feel we are in control and our ability to recognize randomness.
Leonard Mlodinow
#55. You would renounce organizing your future. You would let yourself be guided by the randomness of encounters and events, indifferent to one choice over another.
Edouard Leve
#56. Autism: Where the "randomness of life" collides and clashes with an individual"s need for the sameness~
Eileen Miller
#57. Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about.
John Polkinghorne
#58. Painting reflects. It kills you in a colourful shower of emptiness. Flatness. Randomness. And beauty. Yes, it is the most pure beauty I have ever felt in my life.
Nigel Tomm
#59. These capacities for randomness may have been amplified into human creativity through sexual and social selection.
Geoffrey Miller
#60. The constant bombardment and the randomness with which death scythed us down had exhausted us...
Carsten Jensen
#61. There is no randomness about your life. Here and Now comprise the coordinates of your daily life.
Sarah Young
#62. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism. And to alter now, cleanly and sanely, I want to shuffle off this loose living randomness: people; reviews; fame; all the glittering scales; and be withdrawn, and concentrated.
Virginia Woolf
#63. I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But I want to be fooled by randomness in art. I want the ceremonial of religion; we are made for it.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#64. So much of life, it seems, is determined by pure randomness.
Sidney Poitier
#65. He said that the principal function of music was to organize the details into harmonies that were intended to make us forget that there was randomness all around us. The same, he said, could be said for great books.
Selden Edwards
#66. If there is no randomness in the universe, then what do we mean by chaos?
Rupert Sheldrake
#67. The world is governed by chance. Randomness stalks us every day of our lives.
Paul Auster
#68. I'm fascinated, both by the news and also by the randomness of this continued conversation.
K.F. Breene
#69. The problem with life - with a lot of things - was randomness was responsible for so many things.
Andrea Speed
#70. Our predilection for causal thinking exposes us to serious mistakes in evaluating the randomness of truly random events.
Daniel Kahneman
#71. Life is nothing like a choose your own adventure. Except for when it is, in its randomness: a cancer sell splitting and spreading ruthlessly within the bloodstream; a storm raising on a deadly lake. Except for when it is, in the way the ending changes - in memory in meaning father than substance.
Carrie Snyder
#72. Expose yourself to as much randomness as possible.
Ben Casnocha
#73. Narcotic greens narcotic greens like reeling firmaments disclose in their appearing randomness the sweetest means that you or she or any wandering Thales might choose to be wonder-struck with at the moment when we die
Marianne Bluger
#74. When an investor focuses on short-term investments, he or she is observing the variability of the portfolio, not the returns - in short, being fooled by randomness.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#75. Running was the way he dreamed. Having never been in control of his life, his idea of freedom was simply to break free. He dreamed of being at the mercy of the wind, carried aloft and blown here and there, a life of true randomness instead of always being part of someone else's purpose.
Orson Scott Card
#76. Our lives are no more than the sum of manifold contingencies, and no matter how diverse they might be in their details, they all share an essential randomness in their design: this then that, and because of that, this.
Paul Auster
#78. But imagination is so often no match for the absurdity, the randomness, the tragedy of reality.
Leila Sales
#79. Betting on the success of innovative technologies in the marketplace can carry all the uncertainty and risk that betting on the next card in the deck does at a blackjack table in Las Vegas. There is a factor of randomness that must be factored in, but precisely how to do so is anyone's guess.
Henry Petroski
#80. We create order out of chaos, beauty and meaning out of ugly randomness.
Rick Riordan
#81. No, human. I don't know shit about this. I'm just rattling off randomness to confuse you."
Xypher
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#82. I listen to Radio 4 and put the iPod on shuffle. I like the randomness of, say, the Stones, then something from Nina Simone, Nick Drake or Bob Dylan.
Catherine McCormack
#83. This cognitive illusion was first noted in 1968 by the mathematician William Feller in his classic textbook on probability: "To the untrained eye, randomness appears as regularity or tendency to cluster."33 Here are a few examples of the cluster illusion. The
Steven Pinker
#84. The beauty of my profession [architecture] lies in its randomness and surprise. And don't think I can choose my projects. I have to build what's offered to me.
Rem Koolhaas
#85. The Drunkard's walk: how randomness rules our lives / Leonard Mlodinow.
Leonard Mlodinow
#86. It might not have been Mike,' she said, 'but somebody left something somewhere.'
I couldn't really argue with that. It was as succinct a summing up of the seeming randomness of events in life as I had ever heard.
Bob Tarte
#87. The more you summarize, the more order you put in, the less randomness. Hence the same condition that makes us simplify pushes us to think that the world is less random than it actually is. And
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#88. In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.
Alain Badiou
#89. Life cannot be calculated. That's the big mistake our civilization made. We never accepted that randomness is not a mistake in the equation
it is part of the equation.
Jeanette Winterson
#90. I believe that things just happen in life, and pretty much after the fact, we make up a story to make it all seem rational. We all like simple stories that suggest a causal chain to life's events. Yet randomness is ever present.
Michael S. Gazzaniga
#91. We attribute our successes to our skills, and our failures to external events outside our control, namely to randomness. We
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#92. But should not atheists have an equal obligation to explain the origin of pleasure in a world of randomness and meaninglessness?
Philip Yancey
#93. Letting go of randomness is one of the hardest decisions a person can make.
Douglas Coupland
#94. There is a certain fate to the universe and a certain randomness.
Harlan Coben
#95. [C]ontingency is a thing unto itself, not the titration of determinism by randomness.
Stephen Jay Gould
#96. Randomness scares people. Religion is a way to explain randomness.
Fran Lebowitz
#98. The concept of randomness and coincidence will be obsolete when people can finally define a formulation of patterned interaction between all things within the universe.
Toba Beta
#99. Randomness and lack of warning are the attributes of human violence we fear most, but you now know that human violence is rarely random and rarely without warning.
Gavin De Becker
#100. Moshe was an Israeli with an ear-slitting laugh. He used it in the same way as a madman uses a gun, spraying it around with bewildering randomness.
Alex Garland
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