Garry Kasparov said this quote

The phrase it's better to be lucky than good must be one of the most ridiculous homilies ever uttered. In nearly any competitive endeavor, you have to be damned good before luck can be of any use to you at all.

~ Garry Kasparov

The human mind isn’t a computer; it cannot progress in an orderly fashion down a list of candidate moves and rank them by a score down to the hundredth of a pawn the way a chess machine does. Even the most disciplined human mind wanders in the heat of competition. This is both a weakness and a strength of human cognition. Sometimes these undisciplined wanderings only weaken your analysis. Other times they lead to inspiration, to beautiful or paradoxical moves that were not on your initial list of candidates.

~ Garry Kasparov

A moral foreign policy means your positions on certain matters are clear no matter what, and that you won't forget about them when it's convenient.

~ Garry Kasparov

Somehow, people always forget that it's much easier to install a dictator than to remove one

~ Garry Kasparov