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Talk to people no one else is talking to.
Pete Cashmore /
People
Randomness
Talking
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Randomness is the true foundation of mathematics.
Gregory Chaitin / Mathematician
Foundation
Mathematics
Randomness
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Expose yourself to as much randomness as possible.
Ben Casnocha / Writer
Randomness
Yourself
Much
Possible
Expose
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Randomness works well in search sometimes better than humans.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb / Author
Randomness
Sometimes
Wells
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There's a lot of randomness in the decisions that people make.
Daniel Kahneman / Psychologist
Randomness
Decisions
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There is a certain fate to the universe and a certain randomness.
Harlan Coben / Author
Certain
Fate
Randomness
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So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.
Sidney Poitier / Actor
Determined
Pure
Randomness
Seems
Much
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People believe the only alternative to randomness is intelligent design.
Richard Dawkins / Ethologist
Design
Intelligent
Randomness
Alternative
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If there is no randomness in the universe, then what do we mean by chaos?
Rupert Sheldrake / Author
Chaos
Mean
Randomness
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Letting go of randomness is one of the hardest decisions a person can make.
Douglas Coupland / Novelist
Decision
Letting Go
Randomness
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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
Eric Hoffer / Philosopher
Ability
Chaos
Creativity
Order
Randomness
Introduce
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Contingency is a thing unto itself, not the titration of determinism by randomness.
Stephen Jay Gould / Paleontologist
Determinism
Randomness
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This is the central illusion in life: that randomness is a risk, that it is a bad thing.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb / Author
Illusion
Randomness
Risk
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I think in any work of art, there always will be randomness about what is good, what is bad.
Rajkumar Hirani / Film Director
Randomness
Work Art Good
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We understand tornadoes scientifically, but it still feels supernatural. The randomness makes it feel supernatural.
Michael Koryta / Author
Feels
Randomness
Tornadoes
Scientifically
Supernatural
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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 / Novelist
Ecstasy
Joy
Middle
Narrative
Ongoing
Pain
Randomness
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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 / Author
Dangerous
Randomness
Stuck
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Even though there is randomness and improvisation in my music, I want to have some concrete idea that I can hold onto.
Miguel Zenon /
Concrete
Improvisation
Randomness
Hold
Onto
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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 / Author
Needs
Randomness
Stories
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My work reflects a relationship to the built world that shifts between control and randomness, strangeness and beauty, comfort and fear.
David Allee /
Relationship
Built
Comfort
Randomness
Strangeness
Control
Reflects
Shifts
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I want to bring more structure into my shows sometimes but honestly, people have told me they like the randomness and how crazy it gets.
Rico Nasty /
Randomness
Me Crazy People
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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 / Actress
Bob
Dylan
Ipods
Nina
Radio
Randomness
Shuffle
Stones
Bob Dylan
Drake
Nick
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We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this topography.
Michael Polanyi / Economic Consultant
Entropy
Example
Introducing
Principles
Randomness
Topography
Additional
Arrive
For Example
Principle
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Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about.
John Polkinghorne / Physicist
Chance
Contingency
Historical
Mean
Meaningless
New Things
Novelty
Randomness
Way
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Writers need their totems, their altars. Mine, I feel, share the same randomness and utility of those belonging to painters I know, who are relentlessly visual and even poetic.
Kevin Young /
Belonging
Poetic
Randomness
Utility
Visual
Relentlessly
Altar
Painters
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Since mechanically obtained randomness contains all kinds of possible permutations, including the most regular ones, it cannot be relied upon always to exhibit a pervasive irregularity.
Rudolf Arnheim / Author
Irregularity
Kind
Randomness
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I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But I want to be fooled by randomness in art. I want the ceremonial of religion; we are made for it.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb / Author
Fooled
Randomness
Select
Ceremonial
Markets
Sceptical
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I've been dancing since I was two, learning so many different styles. I like dancing to rap and hip-hop, but also the Strokes, the Hives, and the Vines with carefree randomness. There's always a way to move to something.
Jillian Hervey /
Carefree
Different Styles
Randomness
Strokes
Vines
Styles
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I still don't understand why the tag of 'action hero' follows me. My films have all these elements - romance, action and comedy. None of the fight sequences of my character is an act of randomness. There's a reason to action in my films.
Sunny Deol / Actor
Elements
Hero
Randomness
Romance
Tag
Action Hero
Character Fight Me
Follows
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There's a randomness, even if you're talented. This is a very unforgiving industry that puts you through the ringer. It is not easy by any means, but it's one of those things that if you have the patience, the perspective, and the talent, it can really take off.
Anthony Carrigan /
Randomness
Unforgiving
Puts
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I feel like there's a randomness in real life that too many Hollywood movies just shave off. It feels too intentional, and life just isn't that intentional. I like popcorn movies. I like entertaining movies. But, I feel like I could do something more in the real world.
Morgan Neville / Film Producer
Randomness
Real
World
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In the past, I used to rely on the randomness of working with samples, which was a good way because it threw you in a completely different direction. You just thought, 'What if I take this samba drum and combined it with an '80s synth line or something from this record?'
Jens Lekman / Musician
Good Way
Randomness
Rely
What If
Good Past Way
Combined
Direction
Drum
In The Past
Record
Samples
Synth
Threw
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Everybody always asks us how we choose the movies we have going right now, and it's hard to explain sometimes. There's a randomness to the way things kind of happen and get done. And sometimes you have this perfect storm, and you have to accept that and do the best you can.
Kathleen Kennedy /
Randomness
Storm
Explain
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Trajectories aren't linear. Life's just a roller coaster. If you're getting a chance to do cool stuff, and it's varied stuff, just enjoy it. I guess I'm a believer in the randomness of life rather than it being a linear trajectory or an arc, a consistent smooth arc, towards anything.
Riz Ahmed / Actor
Chance
Believer
Consistent
Enjoy
Linear
Randomness
Roller Coaster
Smooth
Stuff
Trajectory
Anything
Being
Arc
Coaster
Getting
Towards
Guess
Rather
Roller
Varied
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Talk to people no one else is talking to. Who would have thought that giving a speech at a funeral at age 12 would introduce me to a man who would introduce me to my first business contact who would introduce me to several other important people in my life. That's luck. That's randomness.
Ben Casnocha / Writer
Men
Contact
Funeral
Giving
Luck
Randomness
Talking
Important People
Introduce
Several
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Chance is hugely significant in biology. In fact, the presence of apparent randomness in so many aspects of biology - from mutations in DNA to the chance involved in that one sperm reaching that one egg that became you - suggests that randomness is useful, even necessary, in very many cases.
Alice Roberts /
Chance
Biology
Cases
Dna
Involved
Randomness
Reaching
Significant
Apparent
Aspects
Useful
Became
Egg
Fact
Hugely
In Fact
Mutations
Necessary
Presence
Sperm
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Betting on the success of innovative technologies in the marketplace can carry all the uncertainty and risk that betting on the next card in the deck does at a blackjack table in Las Vegas. There is a factor of randomness that must be factored in, but precisely how to do so is anyone's guess.
Henry Petroski / Civil Engineer
Betting
Deck
Innovative
Las Vegas
Marketplace
Randomness
Risk
Uncertainty
Vegas
Blackjack
Card
Carry
Factor
Precisely
Table
Technologies
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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 / Writer
Bystanders
Cab
Curb
Gun
Injury
Randomness
Rational
Taxi
Taxi Cabs
Tragedy
Cause
Possible
Effect
Hits
Incident
Jumps
Least
Pedestrian
Reward
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