Gary Numan

Being a display pilot is probably the thing I've been most proud of in my life. Don't really fly anymore now though. I have three small children and as most of my friends were killed in different accidents, I realised that it was probably just a matter of time before I went that way.

British Musician

Jacky Ickx

Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind.

Belgian Driver

David Lynch

Happy accidents are real gifts, and they can open the door to a future that didn't even exist. It's kind of nice sometimes to set up something to encourage or allow happy accidents to happen.

American Director

Felipe Massa

The accident did not change my life, change the way I think, the way I work. For sure, it gave me even more experience. The biggest problem was my sight, I couldn't see with my left eye.

Brazilian Driver

Friedrich Schiller

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

German Dramatist

Lucas Neff

It's ridiculous. My life's been a series of happy accidents.

American Actor

Eileen Myles

I tend to view my life as an accident, almost as a dream.

American Poet

Vijay Krishna Acharya

My life has been a series of slightly happy accidents.

Indian Director

Billy Ray Cyrus

I don't think there's any accidents in my life.

American Musician

Jean Kennedy Smith

I'm not in public life except by accident.

American Diplomat

‘Accident’ often implies someone was hurt or something was damaged without anyone meaning to do it.

Unexpected Harm

Use 'accident' to stress that something bad happened that nobody planned or wanted.

Not On Purpose

The word can be used for serious occurrences, such as car or industrial accidents.

Serious Incidents

‘Accident’ sometimes indicates something happening purely by chance, which can be positive too.

Chance Happenings

When something is an 'accident', it implies no one is to blame.

No Blame

In philosophy, 'accident' refers to qualities that do not define an object's fundamental nature.

Non-Essential Quality

The term has special meaning in philosophy, unrelated to the common use implying mishaps.

Philosophical Usage

 with real-world analytics the results of the drivers are getting home earlier to see their families mileage is down which is good for profits in the environment customer satisfaction is actually up and they've been saving lives through an insight that they didn't have which is most accidents were happening during left-hand turns so what's next a hundred

Upgrading management...

 can more easily find a set of right-handed clubs, many of the important instruments that have shaped society were designed for the right-handed majority. Because lefties are worse at using these tools, and suffer from higher accident rates, they would be less successful in a purely cooperative world,

Why are some people...

 that fills our bodies exerts an amount of pressure equal to that of the air outside. Of course, this is no accident. It's precisely what allows us to survive in the normal atmosphere, and what makes it more difficult at high altitudes or deep water. And we normally don't feel the air pressing on us

How heavy is air? - Dan...

 decreased harmful emissions, and minimized unproductive and stressful driving time. But accidents can and will still happen, and when they do, their outcomes may be determined months or years in advance by programmers or policy makers. And they'll have some difficult decisions to make.

The ethical dilemma of...

 or at least they did until we forgot their original purpose. For example, theater scenery used to consist of large painted backdrops, raised and lowered by stagehands who would whistle to signal each other. Absentminded whistles from other people could cause an accident.

Where do superstitions...

 But new technology is making this kind of ethical analysis more important than ever. For example, driver-less cars may have to handle choices like causing a small accident to prevent a larger one. Meanwhile, governments are researching autonomous military drones

Would you sacrifice one...

 now people say she deserves a lot of blame, even though what happened in the real world was exactly the same. And in fact, they say she deserves more blame in this case, the failed attempt to harm, than in another case, which we call an accident.

How we read each other's...

 in mummies buried thousands of years ago. So what began as Roentgen's happy accident has become a medical marvel. Hospitals and clinics now conduct over 100 millions scans each year worldwide to treat diseases and save lives.

How X-rays see through...

 a year ago after a brutal accident I lost my life and I chose to become Bionic I had to rethink my world my my identity my purpose my physicality all the pieces of my past endeavors they all

Barriers Are in Your...

 Bilbo thinks he's a lifeguard too but it's no accident that Bilbo such a capable swimmer Newfoundlands have always been salty old