“So much of life, it seems, is determined by pure randomness.”
“If nothing is random, and everything is predetermined, how can there be free will? The answer to that is simple. Nothing is predetermined; it is determined, or was determined, or will be determined.”
“The threads of circumstance that lead to tomorrow are so tenuous that all the fussing and worrying about decisions is futile compared to the pure randomness of existence.”
“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.”
“So much must be established at birth . . . in the random choosing of a name.”
“... Nature almost surely operates by combining chance with necessity, randomness with determinism...”