Quotes About Randomness

The illusion that humans possess free will is compounded by the inherent randomness of the universe. Chaos disguised as freedom of choice...

Individual events. Events beyond law. Events so numerous and so uncoordinated that, flaunting their freedom from formula, they yet fabricate firm form.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

History abhors determinism but cannot tolerate chance.

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

On the canvas of life, with the brushes of goodness, love and passion, paint your randomness, dynamism & desire to show your "art of living" to the world.

It's human nature to find patterns where there are none and to find skill where luck is a more likely explanation.

We try to see patterns, to judge the events in our lives as rewards or punishment, parse things into good and evil. But there is a randomness to life that is beyond analysis...

It has been suggested that an army of monkeys might be trained to pound typewriters at random in the hope that ultimately great works of literature would be produced. Using a coin for the same purpose may save feeding and training expenses and free the monkeys for other monkey business.

The point here is that runs of 4 or more heads or tails are perceived as a nonrandom pattern, when in fact they are in fact the rule in random sequences, not the exception. Stock market participants frequently make this mistake, and an entirely bogus field of finance known as "technical analysis" is devoted to finding patterns in random financial data.

For example, you cannot predict what numbers will come up on a fair (i.e. unbiased) roulette wheel. But if you understand what it is in the wheel's design and operation that makes it fair, then you can explain why predicting the numbers is impossible.

El valor de una casualidad es igual a su tasa de improbabilidad.

Freedom has to be in tension with something, or it's just randomness.

A dice maker agreed with Scarne: "Once in a blue moon you might find a single store die that classes as a perfect, but the chance of finding two of them in a box of 60 and the chance that they would both be sold to the same purchaser as a pair is so small you can forget about it. It never happened.

The lesson taught by the war was clear: to be human is to be small, powerless, and subject to the forces of randomness.

God throws dice, what can I say?

There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.

God's dice always have a lucky roll.

If God resides anywhere ... surely he shelters behind barricades of pure chance.

If God exists, He is there, in the small, cast-off pieces, rough and random and no two alike.

The good news is that in every deck of fifty-two cards there are 2,598,960 possible hands. The bad news is that you are only going to be dealt one of them.

When you go onto the internet, if you really rummage around randomly then how do you hope to find something of any of value?

Don't be deceived by life's outcomes. Life's outcomes, while not entirely random, have a huge amount of luck baked into them.

Cap notices the first red and gold leaves of the fall eddying on the surface of the lake. Do they make a pattern? Perhaps. She could impose form: a ragged spiral; a cluster disrupted by ducks; a single reed caught between reeds. She could impose symbolic meaning. She believes this may be life's primary requirement: to impose a tolerable meaning on randomness.