Quotes About Randomness

My friend Kira always said that life is like an extremely difficult, horribly unbalanced videogame. When you're born, you're given a randomly generated character, with a randomly determined name, race, face, and social class. Your body is your avatar, and you spawn in a random geographic location, at a random moment in human history, surrounded by a random group of people, and then you have to try to survive for as long as you can.

life is like an extremely difficult, horribly unbalanced videogame. When you're born, you're given a randomly generated character, with a randomly determined name, race, face, and social class. Your body is your avatar, and you spawn in a random geographic location, at a random moment in human history, surrounded by a random group of people, and then you have to try to survive for as long as you can.

And it is this randomness of variation that is responsible for the enormous, often quite bizarre diversity of the living world.

Chance is a name for our ignorance.

So much must be established at birth . . . in the random choosing of a name.

There is a certain fate to the universe and a certain randomness.

'Entropy' broadly means tending towards chaos constantly.

It is such a complex matter we live within, it is impossible to track logic and decision making really, so therefore each choice can actually only be seen as coincidence.

So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.

So much of life, it seems, is determined by pure randomness.

la casualidad existe y a veces conviene.

Chance is as relentless as necessity.

And thus the museum took on a new role, and became a symbol and demonstration of time: time passing, time tracked, time catalogued. In some form at least, a museum is merely a chronology of its specialism, a consistent desire to order and explain events beyond randomness.

The problem is that there is a lot of randomness in results in the short term. The underlying patterns can only be identified once you let the law of large numbers do its work.

If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters they might write all the books in the British Museum.

Correlation is not cause, it is just a 'music of chance'.

We cannot wish our worlds into being. Much depends on chance, on what we can't control, on others.

I wanted to make a movie about the arbitrary nature of love.

The fact is, no formula that ignores luck's dominant role can ever be trusted. This is the great, liberating truth of the Fifth Axiom.

Le hasard est une toile d'araignée dans laquelle le destin vient parfois se prendre.

E' la maledetta casualità che ti logora, il fatto che la differenza fra la vita, la morte e una ferita tremenda a volte è legata a cose minime come chinarsi ad allacciarsi una scarpa, scegliere il terzo cesso della fila invece del quarto, voltare la testa a sinistra anziché a destra.

They said if you put a chimp in front of a typewriter, eventually he'd type Hamlet. But if you asked a chimp who the late Senator Thomas from Missouri was, he would never, in a billion years, say Eagleton.

Given the infinite number of coincidences that could happen, very few ever actually do. The universe exists in a coincidence-hating state of anti-fluke.

La vida, finalmente, no es otra cosa más que una suma de minucias que, por circunstancias aleatorias, se convierten en hechos trascendentales.