more Wolfram on randomness

I thought this was cute, and a good summary of
W's ideas, and also a good example of his
flippant style:

"It is almost universally assumed that at some level
physical processes must be the best potential sources
of true randomness. But in practice their record
has actually been very poor. It does not help that
unlike algorithms physical devices can be affected
by their environment, and can also not normally be
copied identically. But in almost every case I know
where detailed analysis has been done substantial
deviations from perfect randomness have been found.
This has however typically been attributed to
engineering mistakes -- or to sampling data too
quickly -- and not to anything more fundamental that
is for example worth describing in publications."

(pg. 969)

-C.