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Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy. -- Barry Hannah
Randomness is the true foundation of mathematics. -- Gregory Chaitin
Expose yourself to as much randomness as possible. -- Ben Casnocha
Randomness works well in search sometimes better than humans. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Randomness scares people. Religion is a way to explain randomness. -- Fran Lebowitz
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature. -- Eric Hoffer
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
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 Drake or Bob Dylan. -- Catherine McCormack
Randomness has an incredibly powerful place in our culture. If you think about it, you can see it driving the algorithms that run our information economy, patterns that make up the traffic of our cities, and on over to the way the stars and galaxies formed. -- DJ Spooky
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 me to a man who would introduce me to my first business contact who would introduce me to several other important people in my life. That's luck. That's randomness. -- Ben Casnocha
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness. -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
[C]ontingency is a thing unto itself, not the titration of determinism by randomness. -- Stephen Jay Gould
You get pseudo-order when you seek order; you only get a measure of order and control when you embrace randomness. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
We need myths to get by. We need story; otherwise the tremendous randomness of experience overwhelms us. Story is what penetrates. -- Robert Coover
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. -- Rudolf Arnheim
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. -- Cynthia Daignault
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. -- Jeanette Winterson
I'm sorry for the randomness of what I wrote, Mr. Oswald. There's been a lot to absorb.' Without looking up, he says, 'Never apologize for writing your truth, Mr. Fink. There are no right or wrong answers. -- Wendy Mass
The two go hand in hand like a dance: chance flirts with necessity, randomness with determinism. To be sure, it is from this interchange that novelty and creativity arise in Nature, thereby yielding unique forms and novel structures. -- Eric Chaisson
The best poetry has its roots in the subconscious to a great degree. Youth, naivety, reliance on instinct more than learning and method, a sense of freedom and play, even trust in randomness, is necessary to the making of a poem. -- May Swenson
Perhaps randomness is not merely an adequate description for complex causes that we cannot specify. Perhaps the world really works this way, and many events are uncaused in any conventional sense of the word. Perhaps our gut feeling that it cannot be so reflects only our hopes and prejudices, our desperate striving to make sense of a complex and confusing world, and not the ways of nature. -- Stephen Jay Gould
People believe the only alternative to randomness is intelligent design. -- Richard Dawkins
There's a lot of randomness in the decisions that people make. -- Daniel Kahneman
We understand tornadoes scientifically, but it still feels supernatural. The randomness makes it feel supernatural. -- Michael Koryta
My work reflects a relationship to the built world that shifts between control and randomness, strangeness and beauty, comfort and fear. -- David Allee
I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But I want to be fooled by randomness in art. I want the ceremonial of religion; we are made for it. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I still don't understand why the tag of 'action hero' follows me. My films have all these elements - romance, action and comedy. None of the fight sequences of my character is an act of randomness. There's a reason to action in my films. -- Sunny Deol
Betting on the success of innovative technologies in the marketplace can carry all the uncertainty and risk that betting on the next card in the deck does at a blackjack table in Las Vegas. There is a factor of randomness that must be factored in, but precisely how to do so is anyone's guess. -- Henry Petroski
What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness - a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestrian, a gun misfires and kills a bystander. Better to have some rational cause and effect between incident and injury. And if cause and effect aren't possible, better that there at least be some reward for all the suffering. -- Jeffrey Kluger
Real randomness requires an infinite amount of information. -- Tristan Perich
There is a certain fate to the universe and a certain randomness. -- Harlan Coben
Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all. -- Wally Lamb
The illusion of randomness gradually disappears as the skill in chart reading improves. -- John Murphy
Letting go of randomness is one of the hardest decisions a person can make. -- Douglas Coupland
By adapting and adjusting to randomness, you shape but do not control your endpoint. -- Bob Deutsch
Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace. -- James Gleick
While in theory randomness is an intrinsic property, in practice, randomness is incomplete information. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
If there is no randomness in the universe, then what do we mean by chaos? -- Rupert Sheldrake
Computers are only capable of a certain kind of randomness because computers are finite devices. -- Tristan Perich
These capacities for randomness may have been amplified into human creativity through sexual and social selection. -- Geoffrey Miller
This is the central illusion in life: that randomness is a risk, that it is a bad thing ... -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Shouldn't atheist have an equal obligation to explain pleasure in a world of randomness. Where does pleasure come from? -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
With randomness it is very unlikely to be embarrassed, but even if you get embarrassed, you can't replicate it. -- Carl Pomerance
When some systems are stuck in a dangerous impasse, randomness and only randomness can unlock them and set them free. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Do me a favor." "Don't lick your seat belt?" Ash's expression was total confusion. "Huh? where did that randomness come from? -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
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. -- Rick Riordan
In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure. -- Alain Badiou
The concept of randomness and coincidence will be obsolete when people can finally define a formulation of patterned interaction between all things within the universe. -- Toba Beta
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. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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. -- Rem Koolhaas
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. -- Nick Bantock
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. -- Peter Cameron
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. -- Vann Chow
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. -- Stefan Zweig
Narcotic greens narcotic greens like reeling firmaments disclose in their appearing randomness the sweetest means that you or she or any wandering Thales might choose to be wonder-struck with at the moment when we die -- Marianne Bluger
Knowing the importance of luck, you should be particularly suspicious when highly consistent patterns emerge from the comparison of successful and less successful firms. In the presence of randomness, regular patterns can only be mirages. -- Daniel Kahneman
Order is the law of nature, the universal trend, the cosmic direction. If time is an arrow, that arrow points toward order. The future is pattern, organization, union, intensification; the past, randomness, confusion, disintegration, dissipation. -- Alan Lightman

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