Entrepreneur Barry Narod credits "dumb luck" for the chance to turn his postdoc work into a thriving business with clients in 17 countries on four continents.
First, the cycle is vulnerable to shocks -- such as wars, weather or new technologies in which chance -- pure dumb luck -- would appear to play the dominant role.
It's either dumb luck or great luck depending how you look at it--dumb to try to cook food and manage gear in the rain; great that we had the chance at all to set up on dry shores.
Don't worry if people think you're dumb, because chances are, you're making a higher grade than them.
Parents can relate to his struggles with his 2-year-old ("call me dumb with a chance of insane").
Tournaments like this give the players a taste of what's often lacking in the lives of Chinese youth -- sports, dumb decisions and a chance to get weird.
We emailed each other movie clips of the Hickory High team measuring the court dimensions in Hoosiers and Jim Carey deadpanning, "So you're telling me there's a chance!" in Dumb and Dumber.
