Ivars Peterson (1948) Canadian mathematician
Source: The Jungles of Randomness: A Mathematical Safari (1997), Chapter 1, “The Die is Cast” (p. 19)
“Luck is probability taken personally.”
Often repeated by Penn Jillette, who attributes this quote to Chip Denman.[citation needed]
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Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) (1972)
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
Also found in "Quotations According to Woody Allen" http://books.google.com/books?id=kd41AQAAIAAJ&q=%22quotations+according%22#search_anchor from the New York Times, 1 December 1975.
Richard Hamming (1915–1998) American mathematician and information theorist
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (1991)
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“Confession is probably the most neglected area of personal prayer.”
Bill Hybels (1951) American writer
Too Busy Not to Pray (2008, InterVarsity Press)
“Luck? Good luck? GM, the last time I checked, luck is for losers.”
Phil Brooks (1978) American professional wrestler and mixed martial artist
Extreme Championship Wrestling. September 4, 2007.
To Armando Estrada when he wished CM Punk good luck in his "Last Chance" match with John Morrison.
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Otto Skorzeny (1908–1975) Austrian SS-Standartenführer (colonel) in the German Waffen-SS
Quoted in The Race for Rome (1975) by Dan Kurzman.