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
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 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
For what are myths if not the imposing of order on phenomena that do not possess order in themselves? And all myths,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What if she was meant to be, or could have been, someone important in my life? I think that's what scares me:… — Peter Cameron 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
I feel like there's a randomness in real life that too many Hollywood movies just shave off. It feels too intentional, and… — Morgan Neville 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
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
“An unlikely event is likely to happen because there are so many unlikely events that could happen.” — Per Bak Copy Share Image
We understand tornadoes scientifically, but it still feels supernatural. The randomness makes it feel supernatural. — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
There is unpredictability and randomness to life and films should reflect that. — Harshvardhan Kapoor Copy Share Image
Since mechanically obtained randomness contains all kinds of possible permutations, including the most regular ones, it cannot be relied upon always to… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
People believe the only alternative to randomness is intelligent design. — Richard Dawkins 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
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
Whoever said nothing is impossible has never tried slamming a revolving door. — DaniAlla And Her BFF 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
Randomness works well in search sometimes better than humans. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb 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
If there is no randomness in the universe, then what do we mean by chaos? — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
