Quotes About Caution

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

Don't put all your eggs in one basket" is all wrong. I tell you "put all your eggs in one basket, and then watch that basket." Look round you and take notice; men who do that do not often fail. It is easy to watch and carry the one basket. It is trying to carry too many baskets that breaks most eggs in this country.

Playing it safe can be dangerous. Or the greatest risk sometimes is not to take a risk.

Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

I trust no one totally.

As I said, be careful from whom one gains knowledge and be aware of the price of its acquisition.

People should learn to see and so avoid all danger. Just as a wise man keeps away from mad dogs, so one should not make friends with evil men." —Buddha

Avoid being in the presence of someone who might do you harm.

Remember, the nicest guy, the guy with no self-serving agenda whatsoever, the one who wants nothing from you, won't approach you at all. You are not comparing the man who approaches you to all men, the vast majority of whom have no sinister intent. Instead, you are comparing him to other men who make unsolicited approaches to women alone, or to other men who don't listen when you say no. In

I've heard many times that people would make a comment, 'This looks like a bomb,' and still open it. That's one for the psychologists to answer.

Never level with a fool, since, you'll wind up be leveled fool.

Caution: psychiatrists. There are hundreds of psychiatrists in this story, and each of them has a catchphrase they repeat over and over. Reading this story will make you hate psychiatrists, even if you are a psychiatrist.

comparing infinities is a treacherous business

You can use rm -rf dir to delete a directory and its contents, but be careful! This is one of the few commands that can do serious damage, especially if you run it as the superuser. The -r option specifies recursive delete to repeatedly delete everything inside dir, and -f forces the delete operation.

You can use rm -rf dir to delete a directory and its contents, but be careful! This is one of the few commands that can do serious damage, especially if you run it as the superuser. The -r option specifies recursive delete to repeatedly delete everything inside dir, and -f forces the delete operation. Don't use the -rf flags with globs such as a star (*). And above all, always double-check your command before you run it.

Artificial intelligence is very powerful and it can help us do amazing things, but it also has the potential to do great harm. We need to approach it with caution, and we need to make sure that we're thinking about the long-term implications of the technology.

I have no idea,' he said, and that's another thing I'll put in my arsonist's guide: be wary of a man who says, 'I have no idea,' when asked why his wife doesn't like something he's done, which of course is just another way of saying be wary of men in general.

Me, I say too much optimism will get you killed.

Just be careful what you say. Don't upset him." "You mean the Grumpus guy?" "It's Krampus.

Just be careful what you say. Don't upset him." "You mean the Grumpus guy?" "It's Krampus." "Just who's this—

Cixous implores women to write, to seize and make words their own, to take risks, to rid themselves of fear and caution, to open up the possibility of loving with all of themselves, not desiring the other through lack, but desiring all of the other with all of oneself. That one self is not a simple sum of her/his parts but a multiplication of difference.

Shun death, is my advice.

Across generations, wariness of new individuals, groups, and ideas was built into the circuits of the human brain's alarm response because those who had this wariness were more likely to survive to reproduce. It was just safer to assume danger- and expect the worst- than to count on the kindness of strangers.