Random Number Quotes (2)
Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in the state of sin.
Remark made at a symposium on the Monte Carlo method. 'Various Techniques Used in Connection with Random Digits', Journal of Research of the National Bureau of Standards, Appl. Math. Series (1951), 3, 36-38; Collected Works, Vol. 5, 5. As quoted in Herman Heine Goldstine, The Computer from Pascal to von Neumann (2nd Ed. 1993), 297.
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
Title of an article (1970). Quoted by M. Gardner (1977), 169. Cited in Gideon Keren and Charles Lewis, A Handbook for data analysis in the behavioral sciences (), 390.
