SERENDIPITY might do - you set out to do one thing, and something else is
created.
In general, serendipity is the act of finding something valuable
or delightful when you are not looking for it. In information technology,
serendipity often plays a part in the recognition of a new product need or
in solving a design problem. Web surfing can be an occasion for serendipity
since you sometimes come across a valuable or interesting site when you are
looking for something else.
The term was coined by English writer Horace Walpole on January
28, 1754, in a letter written to Horace Mann. He credited it to a "silly
fairy tale" he once read called 'The Three Princes of Serendip'.
According to the fairy tale, three Persian princes sailed off to
make their fortunes in the "land of silk", an island called Serendip.
(Today, the island is known as Sri Lanka.) Along the way, the princes made
all types of wondrous and delightful discoveries about the island, and
learned things they never expected. One such learning was purported to be
the discovery that a mule blind in its right eye had recently traveled the
same road. This was discovered when they noticed that the grass had been
eaten only on the left side of the road.
The term is also sometimes used to mean "the randomness of
fate," as in "whatever happens to cross my desk today."
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