All kinds Quote by Rudolf Arnheim

“We are pattern seekers, believers in a coherent world, in which regularities appear not by accident but as a result of mechanical causality or…

— Kahneman

Randomness has an incredibly powerful place in our culture. If you think about it, you can see it driving the algorithms that run our…

— DJ Spooky

“If we are merely a chance product of ‘random happenstance’ and nothing more, doesn’t it strike you as a bit odd that we have…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

People believe the only alternative to randomness is intelligent design.

— Richard Dawkins

What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Variation must be taken as random until there is positive evidence to the contrary.

— Harold Jeffreys

Chaos theory, a more recent invention, is equally fertile ground for those with a bent for abusing sense. It is unfortunately named, for 'chaos'…

— Richard Dawkins

While in theory randomness is an intrinsic property, in practice, randomness is incomplete information.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Things are rarely as random as they appear”

— Maya Banks

“But natural experiments don’t have to be explicitly random, like lotteries. Once you start looking for randomness, you see it everywhere—and can use it…

— Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

Perhaps randomness is not merely an adequate description for complex causes that we cannot specify. Perhaps the world really works this way, and many…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“What we call disorder or chaos might actually be order, if order is seen as a random distribution and not as a static, idealized…

— William Lanouette