# Quote — Leonard Mlodinow, The Drunkard's Walk

> It might seem daunting to think that effort and chance, as much as innate talent, are what counts. But I find it encouraging because, while our genetic makeup is out of our control, our degree of effort is up to us. And the effects of chance, too, can be controlled to the extent that by committing ourselves to repeated attempts, we can increase our odds of success.

- Author: [Leonard Mlodinow](https://www.leafyquotes.com/leonard-mlodinow.md)
- Book: [The Drunkard's Walk](https://www.leafyquotes.com/leonard-mlodinow/the-drunkards-walk.md)
- Page: 162
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/leonard-mlodinow/the-drunkards-walk/it-might-seem

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> The fact that human intuition is ill suited to situations involving uncertainty was known as early as the 1930's, when researchers noted that people could neither make up a sequence of numbers that passed mathematical tests for randomness nor recognize reliably whether a given string was randomly generated.

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> It is one of those contradictions of life that although measurement always carries uncertainty, the uncertainty in measurement is rarely discussed.

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