Samantha Power

When I became director of CIA, it was just clear to me intuitively, without a whole lot of science behind it, that we had expanded rapidly and inefficiently. So I arbitrarily picked a number, 10 percent, and I said over the next 12 months, we are going to reduce our reliance on contractors by 10 percent.

Irish Public Servant

Murray Gell-Mann

Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means a particular phenomenon, namely that in a nonlinear system the outcome is often indefinitely, arbitrarily sensitive to tiny changes in the initial condition.

American Physicist

Gina McCarthy

When consumers do not take full advantage of efficiency gains, it is because they are weighing other factors that influence their decision making. When the federal government arbitrarily places one of those factors over others, it makes consumers worse off.

American Public Servant

Noah Wyle

So many times in television, you get cancelled arbitrarily as a result of your ratings in the off season, and you don't have an opportunity to really script your ending, which can leave it an unsatisfying situation for both participants and the audience.

American Actor

Richard Dawkins

Even if you believe a creator god invented the laws of physics, would you so insult him as to suggest that he might capriciously and arbitrarily violate them in order to walk on water, or turn water into wine as a cheap party trick at a wedding?

English Scientist

Leon Krier

As long as artists arbitrarily assume the right to decide what is or is not art, it is logical that the public will just as arbitrarily feel that they have the right to reject it.

Luxembourger Architect

Friedrich August von Hayek

It can hardly be denied that such a demand quite arbitrarily limits the facts which are to be admitted as possible causes of the events which occur in the real world.

Austrian Economist

Shinichiro Watanabe

National borders have always been arbitrarily drawn by people, and in ancient times there was a lot of exchange of people and culture with the continent.

Japanese Director

Mary Wollstonecraft

Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.

British Writer

Tessa Virtue

I never want to be randomly posing with a product or putting my name to a brand arbitrarily.

Canadian Athlete

Use when actions or decisions lack clear pattern or reason.

Seemingly Random

Perfect for describing selections made without obvious logic.

Unexpected Choices

Highlight the element of unpredictability in events or decisions.

Chance Events

Stress on personal whim rather than systematic choice.

Subjective Decisions

Emphasizes the lack of justice or equality in action.

Unfair Actions

 database so we've heard a lot about citizen science I'm trying to think about citizen protection and the more information we get about these areas then we can start building a better picture in helping out the enforcement individuals that are trying to work on stopping this stuff so instead of just arbitrarily driving out you know taking

Shah Selbe: Using Tech...

 For those without disabilities, at age three, they're transferred to another institution, and at age seven, to yet another. Segregated according to age and gender, they are arbitrarily separated from their siblings, often without even a chance to say goodbye. There's rarely enough to eat. They are often hungry.

Georgette Mulheir: The...

 the creator of the small-world experiments, which became later popularized as six degrees of separation, made the point that any two arbitrarily selected people were likely connected from between five to seven intermediary steps. His point was that strangers are out there. We can reach them. There are paths

Maria Bezaitis: The...

 never be silenced these are political caricatures drawn at a time where something like this could get you arrested this is a young activists who have killed by military police during a protest this is the worried mother of a son who is arbitrarily detained and disappeared by the military something

Giving a voice to young...

 They mean something only with respect to arbitrarily chosen, artificial frames of reference. If, someday, you are buckled into your spaceship, and you see from the side window, say, a space station whizz by at constant speed, there is no way to know which of you is really moving.

How fast are you moving...

 a process that took about six years. The cloned fragments were sequenced in labs around the world following one of the project's two major that collaboration on our shared heritage was open to all nations. In each case, the fragments were arbitrarily broken up

The race to sequence the...

 origami artists discovered these principles and realized we could make arbitrarily complicated figures just by packing circles. And here's where the dead people start to help us out, because lots of people have studied the problem of packing circles.

The math and magic of...

 Ugh. So why is it that the rest of biology moves so fast? Why does a cell die after a day and a human dies after only a hundred years? These seem like really arbitrarily short limits when you think about the total amount of time in the universe.

This deep-sea mystery is...

 terpenoids have one isoprene unit or five carbons monoterpene OIG's have two isoprene units or ten carbons and so on someone arbitrarily we stop caring at about nine so anything with nine or more is called a poly terpenoid the most

What Makes Gum Chewy? PIPE...

 discovered these principles and realize we can make arbitrarily complicated figures just by packing circles and here's where the dead people start to help us out because lots of people have this have studied the problem of packing

Arbitrarily