Another shepherd from the Laius household, he says, whom someone had told to get rid of a child, gave the baby to him. Fortuitous in the expectation of most literate readers is not another way of saying fortunate.
So it was a really fun process in that respect. And it's fortuitous that the book came about when it did this year considering the pandemic and so many people are eating at home.
So almost everything in AI's based on pattern recognition. So it was a fortuitous thing to think of that a while ago. And I think that our brain still is far beyond chips and so forth in many ways.
be challenging or confounding in a lot of ways and funny in a lot of ways. And that was really fortuitous to happen at the beginning of my writing process, because I knew already the book was going to be composed of interactions like that, that there were going to be people who bumped up against each other who were of completely different mindsets,
their own digital revolutions at their own pace, we'll say. And it was really fortuitous that we got Richard here. I don't know if any of you were able to see his commencement speech at Stanford University yesterday.
Or was it just more it was coming anyways, and he just happened to be there? I think it was fortuitous . He had acquired a company called Junglee.
But what-- What ultimately drives him? It was very fortuitous .
Since Alka's death, I have developed a sixth sense about some things. But it's just fortuitous that now that my book has come out, and it has a very strong-willed heroine called Sapna Sinha at a time when all of us are grappling with
record time 42 42 days for Chrysler and 39 days uh for General Motors and that was a a fortuitous bit of business so both companies by July uh just to keep moving the narrative forward by July of 2009 both companies had been gone into bankruptcy had come
has been off in its silo. Because I actually fortuitously sat next to the prime minister of Georgia, because I was amazed at this story.
You just have to keep at it, you just have to keep writing. And so it was extraordinarily fortuitous .
And when you were a teenager, you had an accident playing sports. And it was actually a fortuitous thing, because they discovered a tumor in your leg that was the benign. But had you not had the accident, they probably would have never discovered it.
Or were you able to just keep that I don't really care, I'm just going to be myself? able to come up together fortuitously to be able to make this movie and attach ourselves to it.
And then this, I think, this very beautiful song comes out of it. And we placed ourselves in the path of a fortuitous accident.
I'll stick around for Q&A and be here afterwards to sign books. but I think you've set yourself up to run into fortuitous opportunities.
will admit knowing was a porn star in the '80s who I've never personally met, never even seen any of her work. And I was just consulting-- it was very fortuitous for me to be here at Google, so I could figure out a way to tell the world, when they Google me and see me in the corner, that I'm not in fact married to Brandy.
So that was very, very fortuitous .
So I worked for him for-- after I graduated-- we actually graduated from college, and the following Monday, I started working for him as his assistant. So that was very fortuitous to intern for him. And then I worked there for about four and a half years, and then I moved over to Harper Collins, where I worked for another for five years.
You have to say, if this fortuitous event does not occur again, how is that going to work out for me?
took the book. It was really fortuitous because George Gibson and I had worked together 25 years ago on a previous book,
It turns out that NASA Ames, fortuitously , we were the first one to jump on this bandwagon, in part because we're one of the smaller research centers,
Google Fiber started in my hometown, which is sort of fortuitous -- Kansas City, Missouri.
In a lot of ways, the internet is a fortuitous accident.
Jefferson overlapped with him for only two years, a very fortuitous two years.
student as the bridge between them. It was a very encouraging and fortuitous initial discovery that we were able to find this pretty interesting pattern. Some of you may recognize
So it was a really fun process in that respect. And we have just been so overwhelmed by the reception of the community, just to Kyle's point about its fortuitous timing.
This is actually how they work in a lot of bureka shops because the counter is cold marble, so another fortuitous win for me here.
So what they're seeing, then, is not that they got this steal, but how fortuitous that it worked out in their favor was
But like, all of this is to say, like I said, I got a fortuitous email.
Daniel is the Executive Chef of Eleven Madison Park and owner, recent owner, as of 11/11/11, which I think is quite fortuitous .
So no, absolutely no plan or forethought really or anything like that. Just really fortuitous .
If it weren't for that, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, and all the things that on which our lives are based would not exist, just because of that fortuitous fact