Grace Hopper Quotes

If something happens for one season, for me, it is a coincidence. Twice, we can start talking about it.

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.

First time's a fluke; second time's a coincidence," said Velius. "Third time's tradition," finished Erik.

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

People are incredible creatures of habit.

I'm a big routine guy. I have to have everything in threes.

I'm very much a creature of habit.

Is anything accidental?

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.

I don't think that one day really relates to the next day in life.

Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience.

Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.

I'm creature of habit.

Accident is simply unforeseen order.

That's too coincidental to be a coincidence.

Nothing in the many processes of Nature, whether she deals with men or with things, comes by chance or accident or is really at the mercy of external causes.

I never know what to tell young people when they come here. It could never happen for anyone they way it happened for me. It was all an accident.

Whatever behavior you've experienced from people in the past, expect them to do it again and again and again.

There is no coincidence. Only the illusion of coincidence.

When you do not change up a lot, people may know you a lot better than they should.

If you do something often enough, a ratio will appear

It was as familiar to me as a song I'd been hearing my whole life, covered by various people but the basic tune the same.

A scientist ought to have a healthy disregard for coincidences.

Accidents are not accidents but precise arrivals at the wrong right time.

Accident is veiled necessity.