“Luck is where preparation meets opportunity”
Just like I hardly ever remember jokes or movie scenes or song lyrics, I tend to forget about interesting quotes that I come by. For some reason this one is sticking with me for over a year now. It is from Carnegie Mellon University professor Randy Pausch’s well-known last lecture.
Today I discovered a quote by French chemist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur. Pasteur lived over a century before Pausch did, nevertheless the two quotes are akin: “La chance ne sourit qu’aux esprits bien préparés” or “Chance favors the prepared mind” in English.
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November 2nd, 2008 at 12:51 am
Thanks for the link to the video, I just watched it while ironing the laundry. That’s really a quote that sets you thinking!