Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at random - Donald Knuth

The sun comes up just about as often as it goes down, in the long run, but this doesn't make its motion random.

Any inaccuracies in this index may be explained by the fact that it has been sorted with the help of a computer.

The real problem is that programmers have spent far too much time worrying about efficiency in the wrong places and at the wrong times; premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming.