Quotes About Randomness

Nature almost surely operates by combining chance with necessity, randomness with determinism...

The two go hand in hand like a dance: chance flirts with necessity, randomness with determinism. To be sure, it is from this interchange that novelty and creativity arise in Nature, thereby yielding unique forms and novel structures.

Dass man lebt, ist Zufall; dass man stirbt, ist gewiss.

Who knows why the fuck anything happens?

One must find some structure, even if it be this haphazard one of the alphabet.

You know, another thing people don't realize is that there's a ton of luck in 'Jeopardy.'

We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this topography.

Sometimes, I can myself be frustrated by books that seem to me to be insufficiently realistic about the world's potential for just being totally a randomly bad place.

In this book, all results from the flipping of coins result from the flipping of actual coins.

The first time you succeed it is chance

Si nuestros impulsos estuvieran limitados al hambre a la sed y al deseo, podríamos ser casi libres; pero, en cambio, nos conmueve cada viento que sopla, una palabra dicha al azar o una imagen que esa palabra pueda comunicarnos

This turns out not to be true. Darwinian change is inevitable in any system of information transmission so long as there is some lumpiness in the things transmitted, some fidelity of transmission and a degree of randomness, or trial and error, in innovation. To say that culture 'evolves' is not metaphorical.

there is no end or purpose to existence, only ceaseless creation and destruction, governed entirely by chance.

These houses had been plunked down with an alarming randomness -- unevenly spaced, on crooked lines, like whoever had designed the place had said, We'll just follow this cat, and wherever he sits down, we'll build something.

God doesn't have a plan, He throws pickup sticks.

events that occur at random will seem to come in clusters, because it would take a nonrandom process to space them out.

The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor favor to those of skill, but time and chance happen to them all. An essential part of rationality is dealing with randomness in our lives and uncertainty in our knowledge.

This cognitive illusion was first noted in 1968 by the mathematician William Feller in his classic textbook on probability: "To the untrained eye, randomness appears as regularity or tendency to cluster."33 Here are a few examples of the cluster illusion. The

descuido de la probabilidad».

Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy.

Human life, its growth, its hopes, fears, loves, et cetera, are the result of accidents

it is probable that improbable things will happen. Granted this, one might argue that what is improbable is probable.

Me propongo contar, pues, la trama del siglo. De mi siglo. Mi versión sobre cómo el azar ha gobernado al mundo y sobre cómo los hombres de ciencia tratamos en vano de domesticar su furia.

What's hectic about all this is the thought that I haven't asked to be here. I am just here. So is everybody else. We are all here. But we haven't asked to be. It's not our fault.