Random Quotes

Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you. (Diana, Princess of Wales)
The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness. View quote
André Malraux
Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
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! View quote
Walter Scott
I don't really know that anybody's proven that a random collection of people doing their own thing actually creates value. View quote
Steve Ballmer
When you assume negative intent, you're angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive intent, you will be amazed. Your emotional quotient goes up because you are no longer almost random in your response. View quote
Indra Nooyi
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. View quote
Larry Page
[A]t its best, entertainment is going to be a subjective thing that can't win for everyone, while at worst, a particular game just becomes a random symbol for petty tribal behavior. View quote
John D. Carmack
We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned? View quote
A. B. Yehoshua
In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and effect, labor and reward, are re-coupled. Gardening makes sense in a senseless world. By extension, then, the more gardens in the world, the more justice, the more sense is created. View quote
Andrew Weil
If you define evolution as merely meaning change over time, then I don't see any problem with a person being a Christian and believing in evolution. But that's not how textbooks define evolution. They define evolution as being random and undirected without plan or purpose. (Lee Strobel)
When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance. View quote
Eberhard Weber
The main thing I'm into is going about on a bike, taking random routes; I'm really into the idea of making up journeys, and just seeing where they take you, because they always end up taking you someplace freaky. View quote
Tom Jenkinson
Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life. View quote
Gary Gygax
Political events are always very confused and complicated. They can be compared with a chain. To hold the whole chain you must grasp the main link. Not a link chosen at random. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
Our lives today are not conducted in linear terms. They are much more quantified; a stream of random events is taking place. View quote
J. G. Ballard
Recently I have been working in the country, where, carving in the open air, I find sculpture more natural than in a London studio, but it needs bigger dimensions. A large piece of stone or wood placed almost anywhere at random in a field, orchard, or garden, immediately looks right and inspiring. View quote
Henry Moore
I began in 1976, with small abstract paintings that allowed me to do what I had never let myself do: put something down at random. And then, of course, I realized that it never can be random. It was all a way of opening a door for me. If I don't know what's coming – that is, if I have no hard-and-fast image, as I have with a photographic original – then arbitrary choice and chance play an important part. View quote
Gerhard Richter
Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at random. View quote
Donald Knuth
The sun comes up just about as often as it goes down, in the long run, but this doesn't make its motion random. View quote
Donald Knuth
Throughout his last half-dozen books, for example, Arthur Koestler has been conducting a campaign against his own misunderstanding of Darwinism. He hopes to find some ordering force, constraining evolution to certain directions and overriding the influence of natural selection. [...] Darwinism is not the theory of capricious change that Koestler imagines. Random variation may be the raw material of change, but natural selection builds good design by rejecting most variants while accepting and accumulating the few that improve adaptation to local environments. (Stephen Jay Gould)
When the wind carries a cry which is meaningful to human ears, it is simpler to believe the wind shares with us some part of the emotion of Being than that the mysteries of a hurricane's rising murmur reduce to no more than the random collision of insensate molecules. View quote
Norman Mailer
Life cannot have had a random beginning. ... The trouble is that there are about two thousand enzymes, and the chance of obtaining them all in a random trial is only one part in 10 to the 40,000 power, an outrageously small probability that could not be faced even if the whole universe consisted of organic soup. View quote
Fred Hoyle
A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many. View quote
Seneca
Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose. View quote
Alan Moore