This is the central illusion in life: that randomness is a risk, that it is a bad thing. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb 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
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
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
I have my own reasons for being unreasonable. I have my own story beneath the layers of this randomness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I want to bring more structure into my shows sometimes but honestly, people have told me they like the randomness and how… — Rico Nasty Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think the randomness by Donald Trump's governing, by tweeting, sloganeering, attacking, will create great chaos in the entire market. I think… — Reid Hoffman 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
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
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
“Western man has tried for too many centuries to fool himself that he lives in a rational world. No. There's a story… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“This book is the synthesis of, on one hand, the no-nonsense practitioner of uncertainty who spent his professional life trying to resist… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“The associative machinery seeks causes. The difficulty we have with statistical regularities is that they call for a different approach. Instead of… — Daniel Kahneman 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
You will be educated, which means that you will be interested where others are bored, that you will notice unities where others… — Eva Brann 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
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
My work reflects a relationship to the built world that shifts between control and randomness, strangeness and beauty, comfort and fear. — David Allee Copy Share Image
Computers are only capable of a certain kind of randomness because computers are finite devices. — Tristan Perich Copy Share Image
“By adapting and adjusting to randomness, you shape but do not control your endpoint.” — Bob Deutsch Copy Share Image
“Strategy is methodical, but the one who steers chaos and randomness can steer God.” — Lionel Suggs 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
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
“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
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
“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
“When you roll the dice, let someone else act as a catalyst. God does not place with dice.” — Lionel Suggs 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
We understand tornadoes scientifically, but it still feels supernatural. The randomness makes it feel supernatural. — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
