"Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at random"

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Source : Donald E. Knuth (2014). “Art of Computer Programming, Volume 2: Seminumerical Algorithms”, p.25, Addison-Wesley Professional

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“Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again, And, lost each human trace, surrendering up Thine individual being, shalt thou go To mix forever with the elements, To be a brother to the insensible rock And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain Turns with his share, and treads upon. The oak Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mold.”
“The best thing about baseball is there's no homework.”
“People think living in your parents' basement until you're twenty-nine is lame. But what they don't realize is that while you're there, you save money on rent, food, and dates.”

Source : Ray Romano (1999). “Everything and a Kite”
“Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago? How did they work out? Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them? Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?”
“Id never really considered film. If Id thought about film more growing up, I probably would have changed my name. I had no concept of my name in lights.”
“To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn.”
“Bob Dylan may be the Charlie Chaplin of rock n' roll. Both men are regarded as geniuses by their entire audience. Both were proclaimed revolutionaries for their early work and subjected to exhaustive attack when later works were thought to be inferior. Both developed their art without so much as a nodding glance toward their peers.”
“When I asked Fischer why he had not played a certain move in our game, he replied: 'Well, you laughed when I wrote it down!'”

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