Jesse Eisenberg

I don't concern myself with thinking ahead to the finished product. I focus more specifically on what the character is experiencing. Once you relieve yourself of the very arbitrary and always punishing pressure of what an audience is expecting you to do, acting becomes a lot more fun and pure.

American Actor

Julian Baggini

No genuine choice is ever simply a matter of the arbitrary exercise of will. Take your choice of lunch today. You can't decide to want anything, but what you want will at least in part be a result of a series of other choices and judgments you've made in your life to date.

British Author

Nate Silver

You can build a statistical model and that's all well and good, but if you're dealing with a new type of financial instrument, for example, or a new type of situation - then the choices you're making are pretty arbitrary in a lot of respects.

American Writer

Iskra Lawrence

I refuse to let something as insignificant as a size or number on a scale determine how I feel about myself. I am grateful for my body, my health, and the life that I have, and no arbitrary number should have any impact on that.

English Model

Rick Renzi

I believe there should be no arbitrary date set for withdrawal and yet no permanent, unending deployment. No cut and run, yet measured progress in helping a people who want to be free without an illusion of overnight success.

American Politician

Paul Singer

It is a very bad idea for governments to create arbitrary and unfair outcomes, or outcomes resulting from the passions and whims of the government rather than from the law, just because they have the power to do so.

American Businessman

Tim Minchin

If you make a good show, you tend to get good reviews. I don't believe it is as arbitrary as some people tend to think, which artists do to protect themselves against bad reviews.

Australian Comedian

Terry Teachout

Limitations, be they practical or arbitrary, force artists to dig more deeply instead of settling for easy answers.

American Critic

Rudy Rucker

Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.

American Scientist

Paul Auster

People who don't like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that's how life is.

American Author

When something is arbitrary, it might seem unfair because it lacks a clear reason or system behind it.

Lack of Reason

Arbitrary decisions are often based on someone's own preferences, rather than any objective criteria.

Personal Choice

In legal contexts, 'arbitrary' indicates a decision made without following established laws or guidelines.

Legal Implication

An arbitrary legal decision reflects personal judgement rather than the objective application of the law.

Judge's Discretion

In math, 'arbitrary' can describe a value or result that doesn't follow expected rules or patterns.

Mathematical Irregularity

Used academically, 'arbitrary' may hint that the subject lacks scientific or logical precision.

Academic Usage

 you like the lamp first or the candle first of the fireplace first and they were given some arbitrary answer like how about the fireplace or how about the candle like they would have just like said whatever they think should be lit first without realizing that the match is kind of a prerequisite to lighting anything so the match is obviously

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 molecules they interact with is represented by a physical object that you can hold in your hand and this sensing technology can be built into almost any tabletop surface it's tileable so we can build interactive surfaces of arbitrary size and this isn't a prototype or approve of it's something out there in the world

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 than data divided into misleading or arbitrary categories. All we can do is carefully study the actual situations the statistics describe and consider whether lurking variables may be present. Otherwise, we leave ourselves vulnerable to those who would use data to manipulate others and promote their own agendas.

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 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. But these are not arbitrary limits.

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 It doesn't take lots of technology or biological evolution to be able to do arbitrary computation; just something that happens, naturally, all over the place. Things with rules as simple as these can do it. Well, this has deep implications about the limits of science,

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 reading books and watching TV or playing video games. For those reasons, my social skills were lacking, to say the least, and growing up in a bigoted household, I wasn't prepared for the real world. I'd been raised to judge people based on arbitrary measurements,

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 as all non-living material around them, proliferating and radiating into an incredible ray of complex life forms. All of this— living and inanimate, microscopic and cosmic— is governed by mathematical laws with apparently arbitrary constants. And this opens up a

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 You can go much further deep than you can go up. The deepest mines are much deeper than the tallest buildings are tall, so you can alleviate any arbitrary level of urban congestion with a 3D tunnel network. This is a very important point.

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 But on the hundredth morning after your visit, all the prisoners are gone, each having asked to leave the previous night. So how did you outsmart the dictator? It might help to realize that the amount of prisoners is arbitrary.

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 Don't believe him. It's a pious hope, I wish it were true, but I think the other day he admitted to me it's really an ugly universe. It's stupidly constructed, it's got way too many arbitrary coupling constants and mass ratios

Arbitrary

Based on random choice or personal desire, not any rules or system.

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Decided by a judge or arbitrator rather than a procedure, rule, or law.

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Not proportional or fit.

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Lack of Reason

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