“And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.”

“I was always lucky in my bad luck.”

“I feel that destiny is a mixture of preparation and luck. You can be very lucky, but it is useless if you're not prepared. You can be prepared, but it is useless if you're not lucky.”

“Luke: Boy, it's lucky you have these compartments.
Han: I use them for smuggling. I never thought I'd be smuggling myself in them. This is ridiculous.”

“You have to really work at it to write. I guess there has to be talent first; but even with talent you still have to work at it, to write.”

“I guess there are some things that are so gross you just have to forget, or it'll destroy something within you. Perl is the first such thing I have known.”

“I believe luck is preparation meeting opportunity. If you hadn’t been prepared when the opportunity came along, you wouldn’t have been lucky.”

“You are either lucky in this department or you aren't—and you cannot make your own luck.”

“If I thought about it, I never would have done it, I guess I would have let it slide.”

“It is always so, I guess, validating when you meet somebody that you esteem -- and then they turn out to be everything [you thought] and more.”