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"Chance favors the prepared mind." - Louis Pasteur

• billswift 16y ago
  Repeating a comment I made a couple of weeks ago on another post on serendipity - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1786959 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1786959 - This is even stronger than Pasteur's famous, "Chance favors the prepared mind" - if you are not actually working on a problem, there is no possible way to benefit from serendipity.
• cousin_it 16y ago
  "Random selection is biased in favour of lucky people." - Roy A. Sorensen