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Tag Name "Randomness" (34)

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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
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Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy.
Barry Hannah
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I listen to Radio 4 and put the iPod on shuffle. I like the randomness of, say, the Stones, then something from Nina Simone, Nick Drake or Bob Dylan.
Catherine McCormack
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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
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These capacities for randomness may have been amplified into human creativity through sexual and social selection.
Geoffrey Miller
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Life cannot be calculated. That's the big mistake our civilization made. We never accepted that randomness is not a mistake in the equation -- it is part of the equation.
Jeanette Winterson
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These houses had been plunked down with an alarming randomness -- unevenly spaced, on crooked lines, like whoever had designed the place had said, We'll just follow this cat, and wherever he sits down, we'll build something.
Maureen Johnson
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We understand tornadoes scientifically, but it still feels supernatural. The randomness makes it feel supernatural.
Michael Koryta
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You get pseudo-order when you seek order you only get a measure of order and control when you embrace randomness.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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When some systems are stuck in a dangerous impasse, randomness and only randomness can unlock them and set them free.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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I think that’s what scares me: the randomness of everything. That the people who could be important to you might just pass you by. Or you pass them by.
Peter Cameron
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The beauty of my profession [architecture] lies in its randomness and surprise. And don't think I can choose my projects. I have to build what's offered to me.
Rem Koolhaas
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We need myths to get by. We need story otherwise the tremendous randomness of experience overwhelms us. Story is what penetrates.
Robert Coover
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So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.
Sidney Poitier
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Contingency is a thing unto itself, not the titration of determinism by randomness.
Stephen Jay Gould
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In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.
Alain Badiou
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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
Wally Lamb
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I try to mimic the pattern of memory and of thinking and the randomness of life. It's like a journey. That is the main thing about the beauty of life that you don't cram. And not only beauty, but also the fact that there is never a concrete thing in life.
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
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I'm sorry for the randomness of what I wrote, Mr. Oswald. There's been a lot to absorb.' Without looking up, he says, 'Never apologize for writing your truth, Mr. Fink. There are no right or wrong answers.
Wendy Mass
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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
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It was our use of probability theory as logic that has enabled us to do so easily what was impossible for those who thought of probability as a physical phenomenon associated with randomness. Quite the opposite we have thought of probability distributions as carriers of information.
Edwin Thompson Jaynes
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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
Eric Hoffer
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Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.
James Gleick
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What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness - a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestrian, a gun misfires and kills a bystander. Better to have some rational cause and effect between incident and injury. And if cause and effect aren't possible, better that there at least be some reward for all the suffering.
Jeffrey Kluger
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