Randomness Quotes

64 quotes by 54 authors

You get pseudo-order when you seek order; you only get a measure of order and control when you embrace randomness. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The jamaat was an almost silly mish-mash of people: Rude Dawudâ€™s pork-pie hat poking up here, a jalab-and-turban there, Jehangirâ€™s big Mohawk rising from a… — Michael Muhammad Knight
There were reprints of American editorials. Liberals saw it as a resurgence of social protest and decried the discrimination, poverty, and hunger that had provoked… — Dan Simmons
The illusion of randomness gradually disappears as the skill in chart reading improves. — John Murphy
We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this topography. — Michael Polanyi
I listen to Radio 4 and put the iPod on shuffle. I like the randomness of, say, the Stones, then something from Nina Simone, Nick… — Catherine McCormack
Expose yourself to as much randomness as possible. — Ben Casnocha
Talk to people no one else is talking to. Who would have thought that giving a speech at a funeral at age 12 would introduce… — Ben Casnocha
Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy. — Barry Hannah
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Randomness is the true foundation of mathematics. — Gregory Chaitin
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature. — Eric Hoffer
What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness - a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestrian, a gun misfires and kills… — Jeffrey Kluger
So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness. — Sidney Poitier
Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about. — John Polkinghorne
What if she was meant to be, or could have been, someone important in my life? I think that's what scares me: the randomness of… — Peter Cameron
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin. — Mother Teresa
The world of science lives fairly comfortably with paradox. We know that light is a wave, and also that light is a particle. The discoveries… — Madeleine L'Engle
The threads of circumstance that lead to tomorrow are so tenuous that all the fussing and worrying about decisions is futile compared to the pure… — Nick Bantock
For what are myths if not the imposing of order on phenomena that do not possess order in themselves? And all myths, however they differ… — Stanislaw Lem

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