Totally Random
In practice, one can introduce some degree of randomness in various ways: setting or updating the parameters at random, diversifying the order of the examples, adding some noise to the data, or using only a random fraction of the connections—all these ideas improve the robustness of learning.
Stanislas Dehaene • How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now
Technically, Shannon is correct to say that we do need more bits to communicate the contents of a hard drive containing random data than of one containing pictures and documents.
Cesar Hidalgo • Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies
When some systems are stuck in a dangerous impasse, randomness and only randomness can unlock them and set them free. You can see here that absence of randomness equals guaranteed death.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Incerto 4-Book Bundle
Cryptographers have come to realize that it requires a great deal of time, effort and money to create a random key. The best random keys are created by harnessing natural physical processes, such as radioactivity, which is known to exhibit truly random behavior.