still in the same frame of mind:

What has always bothered me about Einstein's ...doesn't play dice quote is that Einstein has not used the word 'God' in it. He has written 'der Alte' (the Old; the old one) which is much more in line with his conception of a 'God', if there was one at all, as a 'God' in the sense of Spinoza.

Someone (God, Nature, or what/whoever) has once made the laws of Nature and hasn't interfered with the world since then. Einstein was quite open minded about how the world and its laws have started (God, Nature, nobody,...).

The whole Einstein quote in my very verbatim translation (letter to Max Born, 1926):
Quantum mechanics is very awe inspiring. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory delivers a lot, but brings us hardly closer to the secret of the old one. I however am convinced that the old one doesn't throw dice.

Wolfgang