Randomness Quotes · Page 2

Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at random

— Donald Knuth

Whoever said nothing is impossible has never tried slamming a revolving door.

— DaniAlla And Her BFF

The illusion of randomness gradually disappears as the skill in chart reading improves.

— John Murphy

Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.

— James Gleick

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.Eric Hoffer

— Eric Hoffer

The beauty of my profession [architecture] lies in its randomness and surprise. And don't think I can choose my projects. I have…

— Rem Koolhaas

We understand tornadoes scientifically, but it still feels supernatural. The randomness makes it feel supernatural.

— Michael Koryta

Shouldn't atheist have an equal obligation to explain pleasure in a world of randomness. Where does pleasure come from?

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

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

These houses had been plunked down with an alarming randomness -- unevenly spaced, on crooked lines, like whoever had designed the place…

— Maureen Johnson

In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd ... It…

— Stefan Zweig

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

Chance is hugely significant in biology. In fact, the presence of apparent randomness in so many aspects of biology - from mutations…

— Alice Roberts

“There’s randomness and there’s the demand and supply ratio. And both of these combine to stop the average man from making it…

— Daya Kudari

In the past, I used to rely on the randomness of working with samples, which was a good way because it threw…

— Jens Lekman

I still don't understand why the tag of 'action hero' follows me. My films have all these elements - romance, action and…

— Sunny Deol

Life cannot be calculated. That's the big mistake our civilization made. We never accepted that randomness is not a mistake in the…

— Jeanette Winterson

In terms of how the music developed, it was my normal process, which I would say is really a hybrid process of…

— Max Richter

The jamaat was an almost silly mish-mash of people: Rude Dawud’s pork-pie hat poking up here, a jalab-and-turban there, Jehangir’s big Mohawk…

— Michael Muhammad Knight

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

Robbie, you are made of rainbows :) Let the light of chimneys shine upon you. Believe in flowers from earth. Wear your…

— Annonymous Ohio

“To the best of our scientific understanding, determinism and randomness have divided the entire cake between them, leaving not even a crumb…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“His Presbyterian minster father had believed in a divine design, and Mozasu believed that life was like this game where the player…

— Min Jin Lee

“Why is the human need to be in control relevant to a discussion of random patterns? Because if events are random, we…

— Leonard Mlodinow

We all experience many freakish and unexpected events - you have to be open to suffering a little. The philosopher Schopenhauer talked…

— Viggo Mortensen

“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

“An unlikely event is likely to happen because there are so many unlikely events that could happen.”

— Per Bak

These capacities for randomness may have been amplified into human creativity through sexual and social selection.

— Geoffrey Miller

With randomness it is very unlikely to be embarrassed, but even if you get embarrassed, you can't replicate it.

— Carl Pomerance

“Strategy is methodical, but the one who steers chaos and randomness can steer God.”

— Lionel Suggs

We need myths to get by. We need story; otherwise the tremendous randomness of experience overwhelms us. Story is what penetrates.

— Robert Coover

When some systems are stuck in a dangerous impasse, randomness and only randomness can unlock them and set them free.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

My work reflects a relationship to the built world that shifts between control and randomness, strangeness and beauty, comfort and fear.

— David Allee

I want to bring more structure into my shows sometimes but honestly, people have told me they like the randomness and how…

— Rico Nasty

I think that’s what scares me: the randomness of everything. That the people who could be important to you might just pass…

— Peter Cameron

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

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

I try to mimic the pattern of memory and of thinking and the randomness of life. It's like a journey. That is…

— Apichatpong Weerasethakul