I was always playing the Hammond Organ back to front even during the days of the Nice, going back to 1968. Really what I was doing there, was choosing notes at random and trying to make some sense of them, improvising back to front. – Keith Emerson
I just do a random roulette wheel version of what I’ve recorded or sometimes tunes I haven’t recorded. It’s a collection of whatever happens, happens. – Leon Redbone
None of us wants to be reminded that dementia is random, relentless, and frighteningly common. – Laurie Graham
I’m quite a rational person, but I’m drawn to the irrational. I love coincidences, and I like to question that in fiction: ‘Is this random, or is there something working underneath?’ – Lisa Tuttle
Sometimes I will click on a random sequence of notes- not to actually use it in a song, but to see if I can find maybe a simple pattern that I can build off of. – Ken Hill
Occasionally, chewing over some random letter writer’s dilemma, I’ll find myself imagining scenarios where the problem could be sidestepped by an innocent fib or series of evasive manoeuvres. Then, I slap myself on the wrist. – Lynn Coady
It’s interesting: in the late ’80s, there was this really random mix of new wave, industrial, and these early house records. And a lot of it was coming out of Chicago because of Wax Trax! So I always visited Wax Trax Records. – Kaskade
I get the biggest enjoyment from the random and unexpected places. Linux on cellphones or refrigerators, just because it’s so not what I envisioned it. Or on supercomputers. – Linus Torvalds
I have no sense of being famous – you’re just working. And then you’ll have a random day in London when you’ll do some press and it creeps into your awareness that this goes out – that what you do every day goes out to televisions right across the country. – Karen Gillan
An object imbued with intent – it has power, it’s treasure, we’re drawn to it. An object devoid of intent – it’s random, it’s imitative, it repels us. It’s like a piece of junk mail to be thrown away. – John Hockenberry
Only my phone number and email are private because I don’t want random people calling me. But I like the ability to share everything. – Paul Buchheit
A favorite cooking method? I’m a fan of all of them! Anything that gets a pile of random ingredients into a cruelty-free dish works for me! – Rory Freedman
The human brain has evolved the capacity to impose a narrative, complete with chronology and cause-and-effect logic, on whatever it encounters, no matter how apparently random. – Robin Marantz Henig
My comedy notebooks are filled with random journal entries. It’s all the same. I can look back on old joke notebooks, and know exactly what was going on in my life. – Sarah Silverman
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
I’m a real magpie when it comes to music; it’s all random, and there’s no pattern to what I like. – Rhys Ifans
It’s a lot of random situations that combine in a certain volatile form and create a bigger-than- the-whole situation that nobody could have predicted. – Paul Kantner
I understand how hard it is to talk to people about MS. You don’t want pity or random advice. – Teri Garr
At 15, saying I wanted to do a reggae album after growing up in a snazzy house in Houston – it was kind of random. – Solange Knowles
This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven. – Thomas Moore
Working as a journalist, I was always tempted to lie. I felt I could do dialogue better than the person I was interviewing. I felt I could lie better than Nixon and be more concise than some random person I was covering. – Tim O’Brien