OT: PowerPoint?? Best Book to Learn Quickly??

[Ian Buckner]

: I read in sci.electronics.design that Fred Bloggs
PowerPoint?? Best
: >>
: >> Who was it that said, "luck favors the prepared mind"?
: >
: >Louis Pasteur stated that "chance favors the prepared mind" and
this
: >clearly refers to chance productive observation of experimental
results
: >enabled by a mindset open to creative but scientific
hypothetical
: >conjecture. This is slightly deeper than the superficial idea
of luck as
: >applied to the success of a flash-and-dazzle presentation by an
: >overpriced "consultant".
: >
: Isn't the quotation a mix of two, Pasteur's and a
physicist's,(?) who
: spoke about getting luckier the harder he worked at a problem?
I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the
more I
have of it. ~Thomas Jefferson

One of the well known golf players also came up with a
similar quote. When someone suggested he had played a
lucky shot, he came back with: "Sure, and I find that
the more I practice, the luckier I get."

Regards
Ian

[Roger Gt]

"Ian Buckner" wrote
: "Roger Gt" wrote
: > "John Woodgate" wrote
: > : Fred Bloggs wrote
: > : Book to Learn Quickly??', on Wed, 31 Mar 2004:
: > : >> Who was it that said, "luck favors the prepared mind"?
: > : >Louis Pasteur stated that "chance favors the prepared mind"
and
: > : >this clearly refers to chance productive observation of
experimental
: > : >results
: > : >enabled by a mindset open to creative but scientific
: > : >hypothetical conjecture. This is slightly deeper than the
: > : >superficial idea of luck as
: > : >applied to the success of a flash-and-dazzle presentation
by an
: > : >overpriced "consultant".
: > : >
: > : Isn't the quotation a mix of two, Pasteur's and a
: > physicist's,(?) who
: > : spoke about getting luckier the harder he worked at a
problem?
: >
: > I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the
: > more I
: > have of it. ~Thomas Jefferson
: >
: One of the well known golf players also came up with a
: similar quote. When someone suggested he had played a
: lucky shot, he came back with: "Sure, and I find that
: the more I practice, the luckier I get."

I wonder "who" was first?