The phrase "it's better to be lucky than good" must be one of the most ridiculous homilies ever uttered. In nearly any competitive endeavor, you have to be damned good before luck can be of any use to you at all.
Garry Kasparov, Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins
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