Re: Linus Geek of the Week

["Seth Gordon" <user=116@nabble.blu.org>]

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> Maybe I'm bitter, but I don't think so. I'm just old enough to have seen 
> that a lot of life is a crap-shoot and while preparedness and skills help 
> when you get opportunity, ground breaking opportunities don't always come 
> your way. They don't come because you are smart. They don't come because 
> only you could do it. They come because a number of unpredictable and 
> uncontrollable factors came into place at a particular time, and someone 
> who had no idea what was happening was able to run with it. 

"I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, 
nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet 
riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time 
and chance happeneth to them all." --Ecclesiastes 9:11 (KJV) 

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