Luck is not as random as you think.
Before that lottery ticket won the jackpot, someone had to buy it.
Stichwörter: random winning chance fortune luck randomness win lucky ticket lottery fortunate improving-chances making-your-luck not-so-random timed
Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.
James GleickStichwörter: science information randomness
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 ChaissonStichwörter: determinism nature necessity chance randomness
When you roll the dice, let someone else act as a catalyst. God does not place with dice.
Lionel SuggsStichwörter: god randomness god-s-will
The world is big in some ways, and so small in others.
Ashly LorenzanaStichwörter: life world universe randomness overwhelming
Strategy is methodical, but the one who steers chaos and randomness can steer God.
Lionel SuggsStichwörter: god strategy chaos randomness
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.
Terry PratchettStichwörter: meaning randomness clues
She thought of the boy's features as an exquisite distillation out of random patterns-endless queues of happenstance meeting at this nexus.
Frank HerbertStichwörter: probability randomness
Finally, spurred by the appetite to which he was indifferent, he took any one, read the printing on the parti-colored label of paper. He held the soup can like a skull; and at once he did not want it. The soup was made from celery. Mr. Lecky put it back. He stood in mild misery, harassed again by the plague of a will impotent in its restored freedom.
If the mind cannot direct, it can be cunning to protect its ease. Mr. Lecky now proposed a fantastic pact to himself. He shut his eyes. He reached again and took a can. Eyes still shut, he ripped the label from it, crumpled and threw away the paper. Now he could not tell what he had until he opened it.
Stichwörter: indecision randomness soup
[The sound of the wind] was just more proof that the workings of the world were random, that beauty, like suffering, was meaningless, that human life was as pointless as waves on sand.
Anita DiamantStichwörter: beauty suffering randomness random-chance anita-diamant day-after-night meaninglessness-of-life
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