Randomness Quotes

Randomness Quote of the day

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

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

Expose yourself to as much randomness as possible.

So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.

Life cannot be calculated. That's the big mistake our civilization made. We never accepted that randomness is not a mistake in the equation -- it is part of the equation.

From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it.

In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.

We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this topography.

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

You get pseudo-order when you seek order; you only get a measure of order and control when you embrace randomness.

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

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 Drake or Bob Dylan.

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

Randomness works well in search sometimes better than humans.

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

Letting go of randomness is one of the hardest decisions a person can make.

This is the central illusion in life: that randomness is a risk, that it is a bad thing.

When an investor focuses on short-term investments, he or she is observing the variability of the portfolio, not the returns - in short, being fooled by randomness.

In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd ... It is as paradoxical, as attempting to jump over his own shadow.

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

Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy.

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

The beauty of my profession [architecture] lies in its randomness and surprise. And don't think I can choose my projects. I have to build what's offered to me.

Real randomness requires an infinite amount of information.

Randomness is the true foundation of mathematics.

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

If there is no randomness in the universe, then what do we mean by chaos?

Talk to people no one else is talking to.

Since mechanically obtained randomness contains all kinds of possible permutations, including the most regular ones, it cannot be relied upon always to exhibit a pervasive irregularity.

Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.

Randomness scares people. Religion is a way to explain randomness.

There are patterns because we try to find them. A desperate attempt at order because we can't face the terror that it might all be random.

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

Computers are only capable of a certain kind of randomness because computers are finite devices.

Contingency is a thing unto itself, not the titration of determinism by randomness.

Do me a favor." "Don't lick your seat belt?" Ash's expression was total confusion. "Huh? where did that randomness come from?

We choose to believe in Ma'at. We create order out of chaos, beauty out of ugly randomness. That's what Egypt is all about.

I don't want to have a singular vision. I don't have that kind of discipline. I love the randomness of my life - how I have five, six, seven projects going on at one time.

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 randomness of existence.

There is a certain fate to the universe and a certain randomness.

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 randomness to all of it.

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

[The sound of the wind] was just more proof that the workings of the world were random, that beauty, like suffering, was meaningless, that human life was as pointless as waves on sand.

Conventional wisdom nor scientific, mathematical prove of randomness in life could do nothing to deter human's curiosity for the unknown, however small the chance of a positive outcome maybe.

... Nature almost surely operates by combining chance with necessity, randomness with determinism...

Every life is a unique random business

Importance of the random: keep brushing up against people, books, experiences we don't yet know what to do with.

Only dead fishes go with the flow.. I guess that make me a dead fish!

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

Be unprepared, that's my motto. Be unprepared, and let life overwhelm you.