Work hard, get lucky

"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it." - Thomas Jefferson

Thoreau: I went to the woods...

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living so dear.” Thoreau, quoted by Turkle in Alone Together.