Chance favors the prepared mind A Quote by Louis Pasteur The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to LearnPreparing for problems creativitychance
I could do better than that As a practical matter, I think it's easier to see ugliness than to imagine beauty. Most of the people who've made beautiful things seem to have done it by fixing something that they thought ugly. Great work usually seems to happen because someone sees something and thinks, I could do better than that. Paul Graham, Taste for Makers Notes on the Synthesis of Form repair