“ She thought of the boy's features as an exquisite distillation out of random patterns-endless queues of happenstance meeting at this nexus. Frank Herbert
“ In the midst of the ubiquitous dealings with prostituted signs, the thing-poem was capable of opening up the prospect of returning to credible experiences of meaning. It did this by tying language to… Peter Sloterdijk
“ Most of the time - 99 percent of the time - you just don't know how and why the threads are looped together, and that's okay. Do a good thing and something bad happens. Do a bad thing and something go… Lauren Oliver
“ The genome is as complicated and indeterminate as ordinary life, because it is ordinary life. This should come as a relief. Simple determinism, whether of the genetics or environmental kind, is a depr… Matt Ridley
“ Importance of the random: keep brushing up against people, books, experiences we don't yet know what to do with. Alain de Botton
“ For what are myths if not the imposing of order on phenomena that do not possess order in themselves? And all myths, however they differ from philosophical systems and scientific theories, share this… Stanislaw Lem
“ Every genuinely new technology has a genuinely new way of breaking – and every now and then, those malfunctions open a new door to the adjacent possible. Sometimes the way a new technology breaks is a… Steven Johnson
“ Western man has tried for too many centuries to fool himself that he lives in a rational world. No. There's a story about a man who, while walking along the street, was almost hit on the head and kill… Madeleine L'Engle
