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Re:Paul Buchheit: Serendipity finds you by raintrees on Sunday October 24, 2010 @02:51PM (#1826869)
"Chance favors the prepared mind." - Louis Pasteur
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Re:Paul Buchheit: Serendipity finds you by billswift on Sunday October 24, 2010 @04:33PM (#1827177)
Repeating a comment I made a couple of weeks ago on another post on serendipity - 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.

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Re:Paul Buchheit: Serendipity finds you by cousin_it on Monday October 25, 2010 @08:49AM (#1829558)
"Random selection is biased in favour of lucky people." - Roy A. Sorensen
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