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2006-06-02-lucky

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John Pierce: 'It was just God's good luck that I applied to Caltech. Ever since then, I've recommended that people be lucky above all things. Someone once asked if the people to whom I give this advice take it, and I say, "The successful ones do."'

'In 1936, it wasn't so much apparent. I remember that when I was in Italy, I was drinking in an open-air café and some of the Italians raised their glasses - they knew I was American - and said, "Viva Roosevelt!" I raised my glass, and said, "Viva Mussolini!" That wasn’t the right answer, apparently.'

"In my own undergraduate and graduate years, I noticed that the only things I remembered were those that I found in several contexts. I’d been exposed to them once, then I sort of forgot, and then I was exposed to them again and I understood them better. After about three times, I actually began to understand and remember the things."