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Thomas Jefferson on luck
I sometimes hear chess players refer to winning or losing games through “luck.” My opponent in the game of horrors that I posted a couple of months ago tried to make me feel better by saying that he won only through luck. Although I appreciated his sportsmanship and courtesy, I declined to take the excuse. I knew that I had lost primarily because of poor time management earlier in the game.
Anyway, I came across a quote from Thomas Jefferson that seems to apply:
- As quoted in the book Biomedical Image Analysis: Tracking, by Acton and Ray, Morgan & Claypool Publishers, page 45.