Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
The illusion of randomness gradually disappears as the skill in chart reading improves. — John Murphy Copy Share Image
“How does individual randomness turn into collective regularity? Easy—the odds demand it. The” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
“When you roll the dice, let someone else act as a catalyst. God does not place with dice.” — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
“There (is) order and even great beauty in what looks like total chaos. If we look closely enough at the randomness around… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
When some systems are stuck in a dangerous impasse, randomness and only randomness can unlock them and set them free. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Think about Isis,” Jaz repeated. “And Sadie…there is a purpose. You taught us that. We choose to believe in Ma'at. We create… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“We try to see patterns, to judge the events in our lives as rewards or punishment, parse things into good and evil.… — William Eisner Copy Share Image
Once the cells in a biological machine stop working, it can never be started again. It goes into a cascade of decay,… — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
These houses had been plunked down with an alarming randomness -- unevenly spaced, on crooked lines, like whoever had designed the place… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd ... It… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“We humans are the victims of an asymmetry in the perception of random events. We attribute our successes to our skills, and… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Knowing the importance of luck, you should be particularly suspicious when highly consistent patterns emerge from the comparison of successful and less… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Order is the law of nature, the universal trend, the cosmic direction. If time is an arrow, that arrow points toward order.… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
When we are in the grasp of illusion - or, for that matter, whenever we have a new idea - instead of… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
“Then there is the cosmologist, who views himself as nothing but a manipulation of atoms; his mind configured out of randomness into… — Dan Garfat-Pratt Copy Share Image
The world of science lives fairly comfortably with paradox. We know that light is a wave, and also that light is a… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Robbie, you are made of rainbows :) Let the light of chimneys shine upon you. Believe in flowers from earth. Wear your… — Annonymous Ohio Copy Share Image
“Einstein had, for the first time connected new and measurable consequences to statistical physics. That might sound like a largely technical achievement,… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
I think you've got to accept that certain things are in process that you can't change, that you can't overwhelm. The chaos… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
“Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Perhaps randomness is not merely an adequate description for complex causes that we cannot specify. Perhaps the world really works this way,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
We need myths to get by. We need story; otherwise the tremendous randomness of experience overwhelms us. Story is what penetrates. — Robert Coover Copy Share Image
“Strategy is methodical, but the one who steers chaos and randomness can steer God.” — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
“Importance of the random: keep brushing up against people, books, experiences we don't yet know what to do with.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“An unlikely event is likely to happen because there are so many unlikely events that could happen.” — Per Bak Copy Share Image
With randomness it is very unlikely to be embarrassed, but even if you get embarrassed, you can't replicate it. — Carl Pomerance Copy Share Image
These capacities for randomness may have been amplified into human creativity through sexual and social selection. — Geoffrey Miller Copy Share Image
I think in any work of art, there always will be randomness about what is good, what is bad. — Rajkumar Hirani Copy Share Image
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… — Cynthia Daignault Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“She thought of the boy's features as an exquisite distillation out of random patterns-endless queues of happenstance meeting at this nexus.” — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Shouldn't atheist have an equal obligation to explain pleasure in a world of randomness. Where does pleasure come from? — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
We understand tornadoes scientifically, but it still feels supernatural. The randomness makes it feel supernatural. — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will sit in… — DaniAlla And Her BFF Copy Share Image
I have my own reasons for being unreasonable. I have my own story beneath the layers of this randomness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We choose to believe in Ma'at. We create order out of chaos, beauty out of ugly randomness. That's what Egypt is all… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy. — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
