(101 quotes found)
“What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we cant decipher. What we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish. There is no free will. There are no variables. There is only the inevitable.”
Chuck Palahniuk
“I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some bline, random disaster, or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him down the road. He's taken some control over his ultimate fate, and his addiction keeps the cause of death from being a total surprise.”
“Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education”
“Cold calculation, random spots of color, mathematically exact construction (clearly shown or concealed), drawing that is now silent and now strident . . . . Is this not form?”
Giacomo Puccini
“[At first, I just randomly turned the pages. Page 95, Volume 1, Calvin and Hobbes are sitting under a tree.] Do you think there is a God? ... Well, somebody's out to get me.”
Calvin & Hobbes
“It would be as useless to perceive how things 'actually look' as it would be to watch the random dots on untuned television screens”
Marvin Minsky
“O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!”
Sir Walter Scott
“The theme is absolutely important. We don't realize how much of our lives are absolutely random.”
Robert Shiller
“The Star Trek computer doesn't seem that interesting. They ask it random questions, it thinks for a while. I think we can do better than that.”
Larry Page
“I'm just going to draw out three at random, and everyone else can just lump it.”
Hugh Laurie
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