If you could hear other people's thoughts, you'd overhear things that are true as well as things that are completely random. And you wouldn't know one from the other. It'd drive you insane. What's true? What's not? A million ideas, but what do they mean? - Jay Asher Sometimes we have thoughts that even we don't understand. Thoughts that aren't even truethat aren't really how we feelbut they're running through our heads anyway because they're interesting to think about. If you could hear other people's thoughts, you'd overhear things that are true as well as things that are completely random. And you wouldn't know one from the other. It'd drive you insane. What's true? What's not? A million ideas, but what do they mean? - Jay Asher The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process. - Meryl Streep Because to me, there is no logic of any kind behind miso...

There is no reason to assume that the universe has the slightest interest in intelligenceor even in life. Both may be random accidental by-products of its operations like the beautiful patterns on a butterfly's wings. The insect would fly just as well without them. - Arthur C Clarke If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random. - Donald Rumsfeld Now the whole point about machines is they are designed not to be random. When you call up a word processing program on your computer, you don't want it to be different every time you call it up. You want it to stay the same. - Rupert Sheldrake