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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 26 March 2011 03:17:33AM 8 points [-]

The last time someone told me "Good luck", I replied, "I don't believe in an ontologically fundamental tendency toward positive outcomes."

Comment author: Mycroft65536 26 March 2011 05:49:57AM 13 points [-]

I've always been fond of the Penn Jillette line, "Luck is statistics taken personally"

Comment author: cousin_it 26 March 2011 11:19:52PM * 3 points [-]

I remember a line from the book "Blindspots" by Sorensen that goes something like, "random selection is biased in favor of lucky people".