Quotes About Random

It is either coincidence piled on top of coincidence," said Hollus, "or it is deliberate design.

That God does not play dice with the universe. The cosmos cannot simply be a game, designed at random and made without reason. But perhaps He is playing some other game. A game we don't know yet, with rules we can't understand.

Moreover, the slightest 'mutation' of an algorithm (say a slight change in a Turing machine specification, or in its input tape) would tend to render it totally useless, and it is hard to see how actual improvements in algorithms could ever arise in this random way. (Even deliberate improvements are difficult without 'meanings' being available.

You people are such an infertile lot that paternity seems to hit you much harder than it does others. Look at Random. For years he had disowned his son, and now-I've a feeling he'd risk his life for him.

The café was a new-age place, with all kinds of healing juices, and sandwiches Reacher figured had been put together by a blind man. All kinds of random ingredients. Huge seeds in the bread. Like sawdust mixed with ball bearings.

Langer showed again and again how the need to feel in control interferes with the accurate perception of random events.

Thus even random patterns can be interpreted as compelling evidence if they relate to our preconceived notions.

On an emotional level many people resist the idea that random influences are important even if, on an intellectual level, they understand that they are.

As we'll see, the human mind is built to identify for each event a definite cause and can therefore have a hard time accepting the influence of unrelated or random factors.

In a world like this one, only the random makes sense.

Everything is randomly connected.

He didn't believe in miracles. If he'd had any philosophy in life in ran along the lines of the classic shit happens. Usually it was bad shit, sometimes it was good shit, but it was always random shit. You lived your life, & when the run was ended, that was it. Nothing.

In the way Boston works, a random street has appeared ahead, forking a right diagonal, not to be confused with the three other diagonals flaring out around it.

Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random.

A library undermines whatever order it might possess, with random pairings and casual fraternities.

If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.

Life itself is a haphazard, untidy, messy affair.

Dreams were not messengers from the spirit world. They were simply the detritus of the brain's random firings during REM sleep.

Is this what is meant by happenstance: the accidental, the unforeseen, the random music of circumstance and chance that might just send everything in your life down a wholly new path?

Because there is no meaning to be found in the arbitrary nature of things., It's all random. Just as space is blue. And birds fly through it.

Today I told myself that in actual fact anyone who takes an innocuous and random delight in his life is an absolute lummox.

Every individual decision is nothing but coincidence, every artistic decision is coincidence.

The advantage of a quantum walk over a classical random walk can be appreciated by returning to our slow-moving drunk and imagining that the bar he leaves has sprung a leak and that water is pouring out of its door.

A fool must now and then be right by chance. —WILLIAM COWPER