Randomness Quotations

Expose yourself to as much randomness as possible.

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.

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

I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But I want to be fooled by randomness in art. I want the ceremonial of religion; we are made for it.

The randomness of this danger ... that's where the psychological fear is, and that's where the biggest harm is.

The randomness of police tactics, police tactics applied without the knowledge of local turf, without being able to draw intelligent distinctions between possible suspects and people who aren't suspects, it's what ... has gotten us into this soup,

The randomness of playing a nickel or quarter game as opposed to a dollar or $5 game does not change. It will be exactly the same return percentage given the same pay table.

Some groups would struggle to make five minutes, so they'd put more randomness in the act.

Letting go of randomness is one of the hardest decisions a person can make.

[C]ontingency is a thing unto itself, not the titration of determinism by randomness.

(ADR) allows parties to control and design the outcome of their disputes by crafting creative solutions that avoid the randomness of trial decisions, ... Schedules can also be controlled, reducing business, professional and personal disruption.

Young people do a lot of risk-taking, and this is just another opportunity. Young people play (poker) like a video game. They've grown up believing their skill is going to trump the randomness of the game.

I'm tired of all this isolation. I'm tired of this triviality of life. I want real human emotion. I want to feel the natural spontaneity of life, the beautiful randomness and rawness that is life. I want to see you and I want you to see me and I want to bask in that moment of humility and intimacy and the acknowledgement of your dignity and my humanity, even if it is for a second. That'll be enough.

We understand tornadoes scientifically, but it still feels supernatural. The randomness makes it feel supernatural.

This is the central illusion in life: that randomness is a risk, that it is a bad thing ...

When some systems are stuck in a dangerous impasse, randomness and only randomness can unlock them and set them free.

Randomness works well in search sometimes better than humans.

The concept of randomness and coincidence will be obsolete when people can finally define a formulation of patterned interaction between all things within the universe.

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

Talk to people no one else is talking to.

Since mechanically obtained randomness contains all kinds of possible permutations, including the most regular ones, it cannot be relied upon always to exhibit a pervasive irregularity.

If there is no randomness in the universe, then what do we mean by chaos?