Quotes About Contingency

Homo sapiens [are] a tiny twig on an improbable branch of a contingent limb on a fortunate tree.

there's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.

Two is one; one is none.

la ilusión que nos hace considerar la situación de nuestra vida como un simple decorado, una circunstancia contingente e intercambiable por la que transita nuestro 'yo', independiente y constante.

En el camino a tu destino, en el logro de tu meta más importante, pregúntate continuamente, ¿cuáles son las peores cosas que podrían pasar? Y luego protégete contra ellas.

The world is not a solid continent of facts sprinkled by a few lakes of uncertainties, but a vast ocean of uncertainties speckled by a few islands of calibrated and stabilized forms

Mercy is a contingency plan, devised by the guilty in the eventuality that they are caught. Justice is the domain of the just. - Richard Rahl

Plan A had worked. Plan B had failed. Everything depended on Plan C, and there was one drawback to this: he had only ever planned as far as B.

You can never have too much backup.

What can fail, will fail in worst time, so build suspenders and redundancy

In place of a view of the genome as a static blueprint that operates independently of experience and only up to the moment of birth, we have come to understand the genome as a complex, dynamic set of self-regulating recipes that actively modulate every step of life. Nature is not a dictator hell-bent on erecting the same building regardless of the environment, but a flexible Cub Scout prepared with contingency plans for many occasions.

Bus factor (noun): the number of people that need to get hit by a bus before your project is completely doomed.

Pursue your dreams but have a backup plan.

What he's really talking about - and I'm speaking for Mike Flynn, not Donald Trump - is that he's saying, essentially, we have to have options. We have to have a lot of options. And, frankly, we do. We do have a lot of options.

When raising money, you want to look through the lens of 'What happens when things go wrong?'

Back to Microsoft days, I'm always looking for, 'OK, that's great, but what can go wrong?'

We don't know what may yet happen to us, what military and political defeats we may yet have to face.

Trains induce such terrible anxiety. They image the possibility of total and irrevocable failure. They are also dirty, rackety, packed with strangers, an object lesson in the foul contingency of life: the talkative fellow-traveller, the possibility of children.

We have contingency plans for war, but none for peace.

To ... not prepare is the greatest of crimes; to be prepared beforehand for any contingency is the greatest of virtues.

Never depend on those luck moments – they are gifts – but instead always build your own back-up plan.

as they are hedging the possibility of their falling into the same situation some day.

my ideas on redundancy in systems.

Where is the role of optionality in this?