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Quotes About Nonrandom

if Darwin were alive today, he would likely revise a significant part of his great works, because the basic logic of evolution has shifted away from capital-n Nature toward two new core drivers: Unnatural selection* Nonrandom mutation*
~ Juan Enriquez
The point here is that runs of 4 or more heads or tails are perceived as a nonrandom pattern, when in fact they are in fact the rule in random sequences, not the exception. Stock market participants frequently make this mistake, and an entirely bogus field of finance known as "technical analysis" is devoted to finding patterns in random financial data.
~ William J. Bernstein
events that occur at random will seem to come in clusters, because it would take a nonrandom process to space them out.
~ Steven Pinker