There is no such thing as luck; there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.
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Chapter 2Robert A. Heinlein
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Cultural change is the statistical product of the separate behavioral responses of large numbers of human beings who cope as best they can with social existence.
E. O. Wilson
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Seneca the Younger
Luck is truly where preparation meets opportunity.
Randy Pausch
...why did we wait for any thing? — why not seize the pleasure at once? — How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
Jane Austen
They realized that the gains that you get by statistical methods are gains that you get without new machinery, without new people. Anybody can produce quality if he lowers his production rate. That is not what I am talking about. Statistical thinking and statistical methods are to Japanese production workers, foremen, and all the way through the company, a second language. In statistical control you have a reproducible product hour after hour, day after day. And see how comforting that is to management, they now know what they can produce, they know what their costs are going to be.
W. Edwards Deming
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