“Only dead fishes go with the flow.. I guess that make me a dead fish!” — Shanai Campbell Copy Share Image
Randomness works well in search sometimes better than humans. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
When an investor focuses on short-term investments, he or she is observing the variability of the portfolio, not the returns - in… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“The illusion that humans possess free will is compounded by the inherent randomness of the universe. Chaos disguised as freedom of choice...” — Henry Lindell Copy Share Image
You get pseudo-order when you seek order; you only get a measure of order and control when you embrace randomness. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to… — Michael Polanyi Copy Share Image
“There is no randomness about your life. Here and Now comprise the coordinates of your daily life.” — Sarah Young Copy Share Image
“Autism: Where the "randomness of life" collides and clashes with an individual"s need for the sameness~” — Eileen Miller Copy Share Image
“This view of randomness holds that a purposeful bet is powerful not because it may succeed, but because it opens you up… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The best poetry has its roots in the subconscious to a great degree. Youth, naivety, reliance on instinct more than learning and… — May Swenson Copy Share Image
The stock market is an exploitable market where being right means you get rich and you help the overall system error-correct which… — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
“In the midst of the ubiquitous dealings with prostituted signs, the thing-poem was capable of opening up the prospect of returning to… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“But natural experiments don’t have to be explicitly random, like lotteries. Once you start looking for randomness, you see it everywhere—and can… — Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Copy Share Image
The two go hand in hand like a dance: chance flirts with necessity, randomness with determinism. To be sure, it is from… — Eric Chaisson Copy Share Image
“He said that the principal function of music was to organize the details into harmonies that were intended to make us forget… — Seldon Edwards Copy Share Image
I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Randomness has an incredibly powerful place in our culture. If you think about it, you can see it driving the algorithms that… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
“Here’s what we all know, deep down, even though we might wish it weren’t true: Change is going to happen, whether we… — Ed Catmull Copy Share Image
In the early days of the Internet, the word "navigation" had this ingrained in it. There really was a sensation of the… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
“Yet randomness remains stubbornly difficult to understand. The problem is that our brains aren’t wired to think about it. Instead, we are… — Ed Catmull Copy Share Image
“Most of the time - 99 percent of the time - you just don't know how and why the threads are looped… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Finally, spurred by the appetite to which he was indifferent, he took any one, read the printing on the parti-colored label of… — James Gould Cozzens Copy Share Image
He asked me if I was doing ok... I don't think he knew he would get this sort of response... // right… — Alla Copy Share Image
What feeling feels like over time. An attempt to screw up what feeling feels like over time. Heartbreak and a high C…… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
In terms of how the music developed, it was my normal process, which I would say is really a hybrid process of… — Max Richter Copy Share Image
If there is no randomness in the universe, then what do we mean by chaos? — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
Contingency is a thing unto itself, not the titration of determinism by randomness. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“The world is governed by chance. Randomness stalks us every day of our lives.” — Paul Auster Copy Share Image