Many of the world's greatest discoveries have been by accident. I mean, look at the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, or Botox.
The major credit I think Jim and I deserve is for selecting the right problem and sticking to it. It's true that by blundering about we stumbled on gold, but the fact remains that we were looking for gold.
If I look back, I think most of the things I did - the films, the books, the collaborations with these magazines - were mostly by accident.
Sometimes the best part in life is an accident that goes right.
It is often while you are looking for something else entirely that you make the most amazing finds.
I've never been good at making smart career decisions or doing the right strategic thing, and yet somehow it's all led me to exactly the kind of career that I would have dreamed of having - if only I'd been smart enough to dream something like that.
It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
