Quotes About Random

But I believe life is an intelligent thing—that things aren't random.

a universe in thermal equilibrium, in which nothing happened except random motion of the atoms, would have no clock.

We cannot imagine these diseases, they are called idiopathic, spontaneous in origin, but we know instinctively there must be something more, some invisible weakness they are exploiting. It is impossible to think they fall at random, it is unbearable to think it.

Still, some things were out of anyone's control.

My favorite characters are always the unpredictable ones, and with Domino, you literally never know which way the dice are going to roll.

The stock market is an exploitable market where being right means you get rich and you help the overall system error-correct which makes it harder to be right (the mechanism pushes prices close to random, they're not quite random but few can exploit the non-randomness).

En igualdad de condiciones, para incrementar tu felicidad, lo único que hay que hacer es desearle a cualquier otra persona elegida al azar que sea feliz.

Luck is stupid as a cow and blind as a bat.

Odd how certain people, often random individuals, can pulse with significance in your thoughts, your dreams

Everything decayed, the perfectly ordered crystal eventually turned into random particles of dust.

People can find patterns in all kinds of random events. It's called apophenia. It's the tendency we humans have to find meaning in disconnected information.

You know how the nurses started asking me to rate my pain one to ten? I just started giving them random numbers. You can't get to ten, I told the one with those earrings I want to yank out. You can't get to ten because someone might slap you and that would hurt more.

The view backward showed you all the twists and turns your life had taken, all the contingencies and chances, the random elements of good luck and bad luck that made up one person's existence.

There is no case," he told her. "There's a series of random and implausible crises that make no sense other than if you believe the most dramatic possible shit. And there's a dead girl at the end of it all.

Billy walked into a hall where though it was windowless there was not only light but shafts of it, ajut from the ceiling, each starting at a random point in the unbroken surface and crazy-pillaring down in random crosshatched directions, as if the room were nostalgic for moonbeams it had never seen and grew its own simulacra. He walked through and under those interlaced fat fingers of imagined light toward a waiting thing.

My entire life has felt like chance. Random moments of loss and connection. This is the first one that feels, instead, like fate.

In general, the removal of energy from gravitationally bound systems accelerates the movement of their components. This also goes for systems whose components move about randomly: the faster their random motion, the higher their temperature. This means that the temperature of gravitationally bound systems increase as they give off energy.

Of twenty-three graduates randomly selected at Harvard's 1987 commencement ceremonies, only two could explain why it's hotter in summer than in winter.

Heat is the energy of random chaotic motion, and entropy is the amount of hidden microscopic information.

Sometimes in my class I have people come in and do monologues inspired by people they know and I always find that to be useful to do specifics about somebody and then you're actually doing a character and not doing some random old lady or something.

I don't like accidental success. It's what Bill Gates calls 'random,' a term he uses with the opposite of respect.

The myriad factors affecting innovativeness make the historian's task paradoxically easier, by converting societal variation in innovativeness into essentially a random variable. That means that, over a large enough area (such as a whole continent) at any particular time, some proportion of societies is likely to be innovative.

Oh, hullo, Worthing,' he said in a cheery manner. 'How are things?' 'Outlook stormy with a chance of scattered death moving in randomly from all points of the compass.

Being present at the creation of a full-blown conspiracy theory. It's like watching a galaxy being born. Lots of random, unconnected bits and pieces of matter whiz past each other, exert a little gravitational pull and bingo, they start forming an organized system. The next thing you know you have a complete, wheels-within-wheels fantasy involving the CIA, Area 51, cosmic energy and a dead guy.