Quotes About Randomness

To the dumb question "Why me?" the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: why not?

You never know what you're going to get with a pinball game," John said. "It's a lot like life. You can't control it, so you have to just roll with it and do the best you can. And if you do well enough, sometimes you get a bonus play.

It seemed both proper and at the same time deeply unfair that so much of life was left to chance.

The most beautiful arrangement is a pile of things poured out at random

All of this is really impossible, in the way that it is really impossible that monkeys should by chance type out a copy of Hamlet.

Trajectories aren't linear. Life's just a roller coaster. If you're getting a chance to do cool stuff, and it's varied stuff, just enjoy it. I guess I'm a believer in the randomness of life rather than it being a linear trajectory or an arc, a consistent smooth arc, towards anything.

Betting on the success of innovative technologies in the marketplace can carry all the uncertainty and risk that betting on the next card in the deck does at a blackjack table in Las Vegas. There is a factor of randomness that must be factored in, but precisely how to do so is anyone's guess.

He seems to be a real enough character, and even tells us that he is thirty years old. Yet whenever Roquentin talks about his past, it has the studied randomness and the glamorous opacity of espionage. He is a spy from the world of nothingness. For instance, he talks carelessly about having been in an unlikely number of places: Shanghai, Moscow, Algiers, Meknes, Saigon, Aden, Hanoi, Angkor.

Nausea's very subject is the randomness, the contingency, the superfluity, of the world; where better to begin than with Roquentin's own randomness, his contingency as an invented character?

Truly random thoughts don't exist.

Our universe is ruled by random whim, inhabited by people who laugh at logic.

There should be no promise of a plot. Plot is extraordinary, while chance is ordinary.

People can handle an unjust world; it's when the world becomes arbitrary and inexplicable that order breaks down.

People who don't like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that's how life is.

I just kind of conjured them up out of my subconscious and put them in order of ascending peculiarity.

concepto de casualidad

The only thing that I could get with chance, and I never was able to use it, was that I would end up with something quite geometric or the spirit that I was interested in, indulging in, was gone.

There is irreducible chance in the universe.

How much in life is determined, and how much is due to chance?

We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events.

A throw of the dice will never abolish chance.

Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.

Photography is an ambiguous challenge to chance.

How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and accident, that such regular mutations and generations should be begotten by a fortuitous concourse of atoms.