Randomness Quotes

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. - Keith White

We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this topography. - Michael Polanyi

We all experience many freakish and unexpected events - you have to be open to suffering a little. The philosopher Schopenhauer talked about how out of the randomness, there is an apparent intention in the fate of an individual that can be glimpsed later on. When you are an old guy, you can look back, and maybe this rambling life has some through-line. Others can see it better sometimes. But when you glimpse it yourself, you see it more clearly than anyone. - Viggo Mortensen

To dare every day to be irreverent and bold. To dare to preserve the randomness of mind which in children produces strange and wonderful new thoughts and forms. To continually scramble the familiar and bring the old into new juxtaposition. - Gordon Webber

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

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. - Edward Flynn

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

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

It provides an element of chance and randomness of how they are going to turn out. - Steve Hidinger

In 38 brief chapters, this poetic, postmodern novel experiments with a variety of styles: haiku, song lyrics, question-and-answer dialogue and split-screen scenarios. With seeming yet deliberate randomness, Perkins writes an orderly, innovative and risk-taking book in which nothing happens and everything happens. - Barbara Barstow