Thomas Middleton (1580–1627) English playwright and poet
No Wit, no Help, like a Woman's (1611), Act ii. Sc. 2. Compare: "A happy accident", Madame de Staël, L'Allemagne, chap. xvi. Cervantes, Don Quixote, book iv. part ii. chap. lvii.
“I think it a very happy accident.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 58.
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“Although I think that life may be the result of an accident, I do not think that of consciousness.”
Erwin Schrödinger (1887–1961) Austrian physicist
As quoted in The Observer (11 January 1931); also in Psychic Research (1931), Vol. 25, p. 91
Context: Although I think that life may be the result of an accident, I do not think that of consciousness. Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.
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Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“To what happy accident is it that we owe so unexpected a visit?”
Oliver Goldsmith book The Vicar of Wakefield
Source: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 19.
“I'm not a very happy person," I told him."But sometimes I can trick myself into thinking I am.”
David Levithan (1972) American author and editor
Source: Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd
“I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.”
Larry Wall (1954) American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl
On s/foo/bar/eieio [10911@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV, 1991]
Usenet postings, 1991
