“Luck favors the prepared,”

The Black Swan (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
- Highlight Loc. 3689-92  | Added on Wednesday, November 16, 2011, 07:41 PM

The biotech company seemed to follow implicitly, though not explicitly, Louis Pasteur’s adage about creating luck by sheer exposure. “Luck favors the prepared,” Pasteur said, and, like all great discoverers, he knew something about accidental discoveries. The best way to get maximal exposure is to keep researching.