Quotes About Dice

By the way, what is that you're working on?" "Software-configurable RAID grid." She pauses, a cable in each hand. "Go on, your ride will be waiting." "RAID grid being . . . ?" "Redundant Array of Interconnected Demons." She bares her teeth at him. "Demons!" he squeaks, and clutches his magic dice.

When Einstein objected to quantum mechanics by remarking that "God does not play dice," Bohr responded by admonishing him, "Stop telling God what to do." Which means: Nature is richer than our metaphysical prejudices. It has more imagination than we do.

Appeal in law: to put the dice into the box for another throw.

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along.

In 1965, I was teaching a seminar on freedom when I told my students that the ultimate freedom lay in casting a dice to decide what to do. They were so shocked and fascinated that I knew I had to write the book.

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.

God plays dice with the universe," is Ford's answer to Einstein's famous question. "But they're loaded dice. And the main objective of physics now is to find out by what rules were they loaded and how can we use them for our own ends.

Si Dios no juega a los dados con el Universo, como dice Einstein, ¿por qué habría de dejar a sus más milagrosos corpúsculos abandonados a un inmisericorde azar?

I was a street guy. I mean, I grew up in an Italian neighborhood with mob guys around. Where I grew up, you gambled, you shot dice, you played cards, you went to the track. So the mob to me was not strange, it was not like I was an F.B.I. agent from Salt Lake City.

The Checkered Game of Life was a real game, invented by a young draftsman named Milton Bradley in 1860. Checkered referred both to the board, which was patterned like a checkerboard, and also to the checkered way life sometimes goes. No dice were included because of their connection to gambling and because

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.

Which one's in the main theater? I don't know. I just work here part-time to pay for my organic breathing lessons. Do you have any dice? I asked, and then realized I was going about this all wrong. This was quantum theory not Newtonian. It didn't matter which theater I chose or which seat I sat down in. This was a delayed-choice experiment and David was already in flight.

I fell in love with Dungeons & Dragons, and the storytelling of it, and the weird dice, and the fact that it didn't use a traditional board. It felt like I was a part of something special and almost kind of like a secret club because a lot of people didn't know what it was and didn't understand it.

And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame

I tried all the basic approaches," he said. "Including the one those teachers used to crack the cipher he sent to the papers. No dice. This is much more complicated, and far more secure. See, look here.

What quantum reality is, is the reality marketplace. The house of a God that plays dice has many rooms. We can live in only one room at a time, but it is the whole house that is reality." He

It is your job to interpret the dice rolls and give meaning and impact to their results, not just report sports scores.

Time is a child playing dice; the Kingly power is a child's.

Only a few stories about Heraclitus' life have survived, and it's not always clear whether they're true. In one tale he sat in front of the famous temple of Artemis playing dice with a group of children. When several Ephesian statesmen expressed their shock to find him wasting his time this way, he snapped, "Why are you so surprised, you asses? I'm better off here with these stupid kids than with you and your politics!

For decades, many blacks were reluctant to pursue a profession that was associated with servitude. If you went to school, it was to become a lawyer or doctor. Older generations didn't understand why one would spend money to learn how to chop, peel, dice, and saute vegetables when that trade could be taught at home.

but rather a sort of joker, a floating signifier, a wild card, one who puts play into play." And this joker is the inventor of play, of games of draughts, dice

Adelaide played statecraft with all the guile and passion that she put into her other games, and Becky began to realize that perhaps she had been preparing for this with every throw of the dice, every move of a chess piece.

I think the first things I did, I used to try to create digital versions of Dungeons & Dragons that would help me generate a character, that would roll the dice for me.