Quotes About Randomness

Acaso todo en ella era fruto del desorden de las ocasiones?

Blijft het feit dat ik mijn hand opstak en zei dat het menselijke lot zo duidelijk aan de blinde razernij van het toeval was blootgesteld dat jezelf aan een God toevertrouwen hetzelfde was als plaatjes verzamelen terwijl de stad brandt in het hellevuur.

I feel very lucky. The older I get, the more I see how random everything is, the luckier I feel to have been born into this context; the more responsible I feel to be the best that I can be as a person and as a professional. That was a quality... of the men on my father's side of the family.

Here's what I'm going to say about that: my personal thought about the brilliance of 'Peeno Noir' as proven by the fans' appreciation is that, when watched back, what makes it so exciting is the random locations and the random costume changes and the multiple shots that we've done all over the city.

People believe the only alternative to randomness is intelligent design.

I think in any work of art, there always will be randomness about what is good, what is bad.

There's a lot of randomness in the decisions that people make.

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.

The way nails sometimes insist on bending when you hammer, as if they were trying to. Or the way machinery refuses to work. Matter's funny stuff. In large aggregates, it obeys natural law, but when you get down to the individual atom or electron, it's largely a matter of chance or whim—

There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they'd eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know this isn't true.

One of the things that I somewhat realized, especially right after I was convicted, was that sometimes really, really horrible things happen for no reason.

The point is, there is no point." Philip spoke up surprisingly. "No one here gets out alive. And over a sufficient period of time, all choices tend to normalize on a curve of random distribution." "You mean if you wait long enough, nothing happens?

Pense na vida como uma imensa roleta. Há probabilidades infinitas à nossa espera. Coisas boas, coisas más. De vez em quando acontece uma coisa boa. De vez em quando acontece uma coisa ruim. Quem é responsável? Ninguém.

Coincidence is the superstition of the skeptic.

The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.

Anything can happen, and anything does;

Do me a favor. Don't lick your seat belt? Ash's expression was total confusion. Huh? where did that randomness come from?

It's hard to believe in coincidence, but it's even harder to believe in anything else.

El azar era una explicación que sólo tranquilizaba a los idiotas.

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.

God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.

God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

Everything happens for a reason, except possibly football. (in Thief of Time)

It was a fluke. But then, life is.