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Quotes About Random

held out for arbitrary Thursdays. He
~ Samuel R. Delany
I choose depending on the way I feel; randomly, in other words. When I haven't done anything for a long time, I always start small, on paper.
~ Gerhard Richter
I eat stickers all the time dude!
~ Charlie Day
I follow the most random people on Twitter. I follow famous people like Khloe Kardashian, who surprisingly makes really funny tweets all the time.
~ Chloe Grace Moretz
It was obvious that their profits were simply cash borrowed from destiny with some random payback time.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
sometimes things don't happen for a reason, sometimes things just happen. It
~ Marian Keyes
The Misses Braby were twins who had shapeless faces on which the features seemed to have been placed fortuitously without any attempt at assembling them in such a way as to convey a significance.
~ Anthony Powell
Out of the cacophony of random suffering and chaos that can mark human life, the life artist sees or creates a symphony of meaning and order. A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives.
~ Archbishop Desmond Tutu
It is likely that unlikely things should happen
~ Aristotle
Our first presupposition must be that in nature nothing acts on, or is acted on by, any other thing at random, nor may anything come from anything else, unless we mean that it does so in virtue of a concomitant attribute.
~ Aristotle
Ordinary people do this either at random or through practice and from acquired habit.
~ Aristotle
Whereas the Great-minded man despises on good grounds (for he forms his opinions truly), but the mass of men do it at random.
~ Aristotle
There is no reason to assume that the universe has the slightest interest in intelligence—or even in life. Both may be random accidental by-products of its operations like the beautiful patterns on a butterfly's wings. The insect would fly just as well without them.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
half of them at random will be blocked, and half will pass through, and those that do pass through will be reoriented with a vertical polarization.
~ Simon Singh
Oh, many a shaft at random sent Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word at random spoken May soothe, or wound, a heart that's broken!
~ Sir Walter Scott
The rational part of my brain understands that everything is random. There are a million possibilities in the universe. Us meeting is just one of those possibilities, and just as meaningless. The thing is, though, I can't imagine a world that didn't bring us together. We were meant to be.
~ Sophie Kinsella
New York City is filled with random, quirky moments like this, chance collisions that just might change your life.
~ Hope Edelman
Life scars us with its random motion, he thought. Only death is perfect.
~ Joan D. Vinge
One of the hardest behaviors to quench in anyone is a habit that is only occasionally rewarded. Want to keep a gambler at a slot machine longer? Make sure the payout schedule is random. Studies show that people who experience random rewards in response to a behavior cling to that behavior much more solidly than those who don't. This
~ John Medina
A just society is a society that if you knew everything about it, you'd be willing to enter it in a random place
~ John Rawls
When I first moved to the bench, it was a little tough to adjust to, but I've just recalled last season when I first started. Just taking care of my body and knowing that there could be a random time that I'm checking in, so I need to continue to take care of my body.
~ Thon Maker
One thing I've been doing at Baidu is running a workshop on the strategy of innovation. The idea is that innovation is not these random unpredictable acts of genius but that, instead, one can be very systematic in creating things that have never been created before.
~ Andrew Ng
Together we can change the world, just one random act of kindness at a time.
~ Ron Hall
Shishito Pepper is a well-known pepper grown in Japan. Only one out of every ten is spicy, but there is no way to know which one is spicy beforehand.
~ Scott Matthews