91 Quotes About Randomness

I know that a lot of our successes came because we had pure intentions and great talent, and we did a lot of things right, but I also believe that attributing our successes solely to our own intelligence, without acknowledging the role of accidental events, diminishes us.

We have built a thousand temples to Fortune and not one to Reason.

Life had taught him to be profoundly suspicious of coincidence, and it had similarly taught him to view any seemingly random conjunction of events or persons as coincidence and thus be suspicious of that, as well.

The most frightening proposition was that he had no connection to this place, that this fourth-floor office was simply where be broke down. If his presence here was random, then why not an entire world governed by randomness, with all that implied? Solve the Straggler, and you took a nibble out of the pure chaos the world had become.

de eindigheid van de dingende willekeur--het voortdurend brekenen lijmen van het hartverlangend zoekensoms vindenaltijd weer verliezen.waartoe, toch?

God.Hoe kan er ook maareen fractie van u zijnin deze blasfemische willekeur?

Purpose is how God controls the randomness of life. Without it, you’re just silver ball in the arcade game of life.

Just because you haven't finished a series, doesn't mean you can't start other ones!

There are patterns because we try to find them. A desperate attempt at order because we can't face the terror that it might all be random.