Randomness – Quotes

Creativity is the ability

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature. Eric Hoffer

The two go hand in hand like a dance: chance flirts with necessity, randomness with determinism. To be sure, it is from this interchange that novelty and creativity arise in Nature, thereby yielding unique forms and novel structures. Eric Chaisson

I think you\’ve got

I think you’ve got to accept that certain things are in process that you can’t change, that you can’t overwhelm. The chaos of our cities, the randomness of our lives, the unpredictability of where you’re going to be in ten years from now – all of those things are weighing on us, and yet there … Read more

Randomness scares people. Religion

Randomness scares people. Religion is a way to explain randomness. Fran Lebowitz

Letting go of randomness

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

Random numbers should not

Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at random Donald Knuth

Randomness has an incredibly

Randomness has an incredibly powerful place in our culture. If you think about it, you can see it driving the algorithms that run our information economy, patterns that make up the traffic of our cities, and on over to the way the stars and galaxies formed. DJ Spooky

Knowing the importance of

Knowing the importance of luck, you should be particularly suspicious when highly consistent patterns emerge from the comparison of successful and less successful firms. In the presence of randomness, regular patterns can only be mirages. Daniel Kahneman

There were reprints of

There were reprints of American editorials. Liberals saw it as a resurgence of social protest and decried the discrimination, poverty, and hunger that had provoked it. Conservative columnists acidly pointed out that hungry people don’t steal stereo systems first and called for a crackdown in law enforcement. All of the reasoned editorials sounded hollow in … Read more

We talk often about

We talk often about being in a media-saturated society, and we are surrounded by image streams. But it’s nihilistic. There’s a real randomness to all of it. Cynthia Daignault