91 Quotes About Randomness

His Presbyterian minster father had believed in a divine design, and Mozasu believed that life was like this game where the player could adjust the dials yet also expect the uncertainty of factors he couldn't control. He understood why his customers wanted to play something that looked fixed but which also left room for randomness and hope.

Expose yourself to as much randomness as possible.

Every genuinely new technology has a genuinely new way of breaking – and every now and then, those malfunctions open a new door to the adjacent possible. Sometimes the way a new technology breaks is almost as interesting as the way it works.

The genome is as complicated and indeterminate as ordinary life, because it is ordinary life. This should come as a relief. Simple determinism, whether of the genetics or environmental kind, is a depressing prospect for those with a fondness for free will.

Perhaps death represents the severing of the living organism's connection with the orderly quantum realm, leaving it powerless to resist the randomizing forces of thermodynamics.

We all start from “naive realism,” i.e., the doctrine that thingsare what they seem. We think that grass is green, that stonesare hard, and that snow is cold. But physics assures us that thegreenness of grass, the hardness of stones, and the coldness ofsnow are not the greenness of grass, the hardness of stones, andthe coldness of snow that we know in our own experience, butsomething very different

Once history holds your hand, it never lets go. But it has an anxious grip and takes you places you couldn’t expect.

Life is a chain of happenings that are either purely random or predestined.

If my brain can ttell the difference between noise and signal, my heart cannot.