Quotes About Randomness

Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get.

Come to think of it, there are already a million monkeys on a million typewriters, and the Usenet is NOTHING like Shakespeare

Luck is a part of life, and everyone, at one point or another, gets lucky.

It might not have been Mike,' she said, 'but somebody left something somewhere.' I couldn't really argue with that. It was as succinct a summing up of the seeming randomness of events in life as I had ever heard.

If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will.

I think that we all stand on the dartboard of life. Roughly 30,000 people a year are going to catch a dart labeled pancreatic cancer, and that's unfortunate. It's not what I would have chosen. But I in no way feel like I deserved it.

What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness - a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestrian, a gun misfires and kills a bystander. Better to have some rational cause and effect between incident and injury. And if cause and effect aren't possible, better that there at least be some reward for all the suffering.

A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance.

If a man who can't count finds a four leaf clover, is he lucky?

Mais il suffit d'une seconde pour faire comprendre que, le hasard n'y ayant aucune part, c'est une absurdité de vouloir jouer contre soi-même. L'attrait du jeu d'échecs réside tout entier en ceci que deux cerveaux s'y affrontent, chacun avec sa tactique […] vouloir jouer aux échecs contre soi-même est donc aussi paradoxal que vouloir marcher sur son ombre.

In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd ... It is as paradoxical, as attempting to jump over his own shadow.

Perfect truth (symmetry) is information that doesn't change and pure randomness is a difference that doesn't make a difference.

And to imagine all these things happen purely by chance is like imagining that a tornado can hit a junkyard and assemble the parts into a working 747 airplane. It's very hard to believe.

But because he has misjudged how large the sample needs to be if it is to stand a good chance of reflecting the entire population, he is at the mercy of luck.

If our minds can be misled by our false stereotype of something as measurable as randomness, how much might they be misled by other, vaguer stereotypes?

El hombre es un artefacto determinista metido en un universo probabilístico

At the far end of this infinite distance a coin is being spun which will come down heads or tails. How will you wager? Reason cannot make you choose either, reason cannot prove either wrong.

The system was designed to reduce the randomness of voter contact, to make sure the volunteers and field staff concentrated their efforts on those most likely to vote for Trump.

After all, I am alive only by accident.

It isn't fair. It isn't fair that it's me and not someone else, and it isn't fair that it should be anyone.

La suerte es relativa.

Ahora sé que no es así, que Johnny persigue en vez de ser perseguido, que todo lo que le está ocurriendo en la vida son azares del cazador y no del animal acosado.

A junkyard contains all the bits and pieces of a Boeing 747, dismembered and in disarray. A whirlwind happens to blow through the yard. What is the chance that after its passage a fully assembled 747, ready to fly, will be found standing there? So small as to be negligible, even if a tornado were to blow through enough junkyards to fill the whole Universe.

Deine These war, dass die menschliche Unvollkommenheit, die Tatsache, dass wir die Handlungsweise anderer nie mit Sicherheit vorauszusagen, und dass wir ferner den Zufall, der in alles hineinspielt, nicht in unsere Überlegung einzubauen vermögen, der Grund sei der die meisten Verbrechen zwangsläufig zutage fördern müsse.