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Quotes About Safety

they needed additional safety features and scrambled to add them, at any cost.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
forcing us to add an extra layer of protection
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
an employee is also a risk-management strategy.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It is exactly like saying that nuclear bombs are safer because they explode less often.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
No matter what those sex-ed teachers say about how great condoms are, there's not a condom in the world to protect you from heartbreak.
~ Natasha Friend
when a self-doubting, insecure person blindly persists in counterproductive behavior, clings to the illusory safety of compulsive inflexibility, and blames all misfortune on someone else.
~ Nathaniel Branden
Children need limits and feel anxious in their absence. This is one of the reasons they test limits—to be certain they are there. They need to know that someone is flying the plane.
~ Nathaniel Branden
When high school girls like us freak out, people are always able to overpower us before we do something stupid, like hijacking a bus or running around with a knife. Which is why girls arm themselves beforehand so they don't get caught up in something like that. Boys probably aren't so good at protecting themselves.
~ Natsuo Kirino
The question wasn't whether or not I cared about him; the question was, how much? I'm glad Tennyson didn't ask that, because then I'd have to ask myself; and I already knew the answer. I cared far more than was safe.
~ Neal Shusterman
It's a powerful feeling to know you make others feel safe
~ Neal Shusterman
Kind of an early warning system originally developed to fight terrorism, but isn't it nice to know we can now use it for civilian purposes?
~ Neal Shusterman
When a semi-stranger invites you inside to see her darkroom, any sensible human being would break the land speed record running in the other direction. However, with her perpetually present pocket pepper spray and a brown belt in theoretical jujitsu, Petula felt well able to protect herself should Ms. Planck turn out to be serving up local children in the beef ragout, like that lunch lady down in Phoenix.
~ Neal Shusterman
Should evil people be allowed the freedom to be evil, without any safety nets? Is that what Purity was? Was she evil?
~ Neal Shusterman
After all, a thirteen-year-old shouldn't use a handheld missile launcher without proper instruction.
~ Neal Shusterman
Comfort food, thought Citra, because somehow it made her feel safe from the inside out. "My grandmother said it could actually heal a cold." "What's a cold?" asked Citra. "A deadly illness from the mortal age, I suppose.
~ Neal Shusterman
He doesn't respond; he just kisses her on the back of her head, to maintain his image as the safest port in her storm. It's a powerful feeling to know you make others feel safe.
~ Neal Shusterman
He was safe. He was protected. What more could he ask for? Everything.
~ Neal Shusterman
A study at Google found that the #1 dynamic that set successful teams apart from other teams was the presence of psychological safety, the ability of team members to take risks without feeling insecure or embarrassed (Rozovsky, 2015).
~ Charles Jones
We are Bay Aryans from Berkeley: prepare to be reengineered in an attractive range of color schemes for your safety and comfort!
~ Charles Stross
Didn't they know that the only unhackable computer is one that's running a secure operating system, welded inside a steel safe, buried under a ton of concrete at the bottom of a coal mine guarded by the SAS and a couple of armoured divisions, and switched off? What did they think they were doing?
~ Charles Stross
IF ONE WISHES to live to a ripe old age, there are certain activities one should avoid. Chief among these is eating anything larger than one's own head—but not so very far down the list is any activity that involves clambering around the outside of a spaceship.
~ Charles Stross
Did it have a name, this project?" "Yes. The books and posters are called MAGIC CIRCLE OF SAFETY, but she said I'd find it in the stacks under a very strange reference—KGB.2.YA—what's so funny? Bob? Are you choking? Bob? Bob? Do you need help?" Kiss Good-Bye 2 Your Ass: I love the Laundry sense of humor.
~ Charles Stross
Rule Number One is don't die. Corollary Number One is don't poke things that will certainly kill you, like high-tension cables and hostile level-six Existential Anthropic Threats.
~ Charles Stross
Most demons are as dumb as a sackful of hammers. This does not mean they're safe to mess with, any more than a C++ compiler is "safe" in the hands of an enthusiastic computer science undergrad. Some people can mess up anything, and computational demonology adds a new and unwelcome meaning to terms like "memory leak" and "debugger." Now
~ Charles Stross