{"quotes":[{"text":"A random act of violence,' his mother called it. 'A totally senseless thing.' Unnecessary qualifiers, he sometimes wants to tell her, as the universe is random and senseless place.","author":"Thomas Pierce","tags":["life","randomness","senselessness","universe","violence"],"id":7944,"author_id":"Thomas+Pierce"},{"text":"Only dead fishes go with the flow.. I guess that make me a dead fish!","author":"Shanai Campbell","tags":["fact","funny","humour","randomness"],"id":12160,"author_id":"Shanai+Campbell"},{"text":"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.","author":"Min Jin Lee","tags":["game","hope","randomness","uncertainty"],"id":59756,"author_id":"Min+Jin+Lee"},{"text":"Be unprepared, that's my motto. Be unprepared, and let life overwhelm you.","author":"Marty Rubin","tags":["chance","life","randomness","spontaneity","unprepared"],"id":63355,"author_id":"Marty+Rubin"},{"text":"The world is big in some ways, and so small in others.","author":"Ashly Lorenzana","tags":["life","overwhelming","randomness","universe","world"],"id":66626,"author_id":"Ashly+Lorenzana"},{"text":"If you hear a 'prominent' economist using the word 'equilibrium,' or 'normal distribution,' do not argue with him; just ignore him, or try to put a rat down his shirt.","author":"Nassim Nicholas Taleb","tags":["economics","humor","randomness"],"id":90449,"author_id":"Nassim+Nicholas+Taleb"},{"text":"Conventional wisdom nor scientific, mathematical prove of randomness in life could do nothing to deter human's curiosity for the unknown, however small the chance of a positive outcome maybe.","author":"Vann Chow","tags":["casino","chances","chaos","curiosity","curious","fortune","gamble","gambler","gamblers","gambling","game-of-luck","human-fallacy","human-weakness","humanity","luck","math","mathematical-prove","mistake","money","online-casino","opportunity","pachinko","playing-poker","poker","poor","probability","random","randomness","randomness-of-life","science","scientific-conclusion","statistics","unknown","waste-money","weak-mind","weak-minded","weakness"],"id":92732,"author_id":"Vann+Chow"},{"text":"... Nature almost surely operates by combining chance with necessity, randomness with determinism...","author":"Eric Chaisson","tags":["chance","determinism","nature","necessity","randomness"],"id":101572,"author_id":"Eric+Chaisson"},{"text":"Vimes took the view that life was so full of things happening erratically in all directions that the chances of any of them making some kind of relevant sense were remote in the extreme. Colon, being by nature more optimistic and by intellect a good deal slower, was still at the Clues are Important stage.","author":"Terry Pratchett","tags":["clues","meaning","randomness"],"id":106874,"author_id":"Terry+Pratchett"},{"text":"If we are merely a chance product of ‘random happenstance’ and nothing more, doesn’t it strike you as a bit odd that we have the ability to contemplate the question of ‘random happenstance’ with such methodical complexity?","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["chance","complex","complexity","contemplate","contradictory","creation","creationism","evolution","evolutionary","god","happenstance","illogical","methodical","odd","opposed","opposite","random","randomness"],"id":119743,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":32,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}