Random Events Quotes

You need lucky breaks to be successful.

I believe the calculation of the quantity of probability might be improved to a very useful and pleasant speculation, and applied to a great many events which are accidental, besides those of games; only these cases would be infinitely more confused, as depending on chances which the most part of men are ignorant of.

Grew up in a small town where there was only one crazy guy. He didn't even go insane doing anything good, like going to 'Nam or having an extended acid trip. Turns out - legend has it - he just had some bad cheese.

In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random and inexplicable the event is.

Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.

Who then can calculate the path of the molecule? how do we know that the creations of worlds are not determined by the fall of grains of sand?

The true law of economics is chance, and we learned people arbitrarily seize on a few moments and establish them as laws.

The economy is a thoughtless weather system.

Don't worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 p.m. on some idle Tuesday.

I love to think about chance - about how one little overheard word, one pebble in a shoe, can change the universe.

He would conclude that nothing was real except chance.

All thoughts emit a throw of dice

Skill is a function of chance. It’s an intuitive best-use of chance situations.

I'm sure there are close calls that we're not even aware of hundreds of times a year. You cross the street, and if you'd crossed the street two minutes later, you'd have been hit by a car, but you'd never know it. I'm sure that kind of stuff happens all the time.

At the Mirage Sportsbook, you can get a line on 2 kid playing wiffleball in the backyard in Minnesota

Real life isn't a series of interconnected events occurring one after another - like beads strung on a necklace. Life is actually a series of encounters in which one event may change those that follow in a wholly unpredictable, even devastating way.

There are things we can't control - like the wins and the losses.

My life has been a whole series of accidents, some of them happy, some not.

In the end, each life is no more than the sum of contingent facts, a chronicle of chance intersections, of flukes, of random events that divulge nothing but their own lack of purpose.

You know, there’s a philosopher who says, “As you live your life, it appears to be anarchy and chaos, and random events, non-related events, smashing into each other and causing this situation or that situation, and then, this happens, and it’s overwhelming, and it just looks like what in the world is going on ? And later, when you look back at it, it looks like a finely crafted novel. But at the time, it don’t.

That history just unfolds, independently of a specified direction, of a goal, no one is willing to admit.

My life is studded with a series of coincidences.

Unforeseen surprises are the rule in science, not the exception. Remember: Stuff happens.

I don't believe in fate," she said at last. "But I do believe in...loopholes. I think a lot of what keeps the world going is the result of accidents — happy or otherwise — and taking advantage of these.

You may say that things happen just by chance, but I don't feel that way.