Quotes About Risk

We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet- for the sake of hamburgers

El miedo es la posibilidad de ganar la libertad.

There is no just playing to catch the leader in a pick-and-pray—once your picks are in, that's it.

Michael Beychok: "I became a successful bettor when I started playing the tournaments.

One piece of advice that I would give people playing pick-and-prays

you should always play a high-priced horse in the last leg.

The art of war lies in calculating the odds very closely to begin with, and then in adding exactly, almost mathematically, the factor of chance. Chance

In other words, the important statistic is the risk of violent death for each person. To illustrate this point, there were 49 homicides in Denmark in 2012 (population: 5.6 million), so the chance of any particular Dane being murdered that year was less than one in 100,000. But in a typical small-scale society, with a population of, say, 1,000, 49 homicides would translate into one chance in 20 of being murdered. As

By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.

Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.

Realist saboteurs do not, as a rule, enjoy long careers. Everyone gets caught eventually.

The abyss is a desert; no one can afford the luxury of waiting for better odds.

The reason that stuff goes bad is because it's crappy old tech. Internal augs are less failure-prone than your own brain." "So they'll work flawlessly when some spambot hacks in and leaves me with an irresistible urge to buy a year's supply of bubble bath for cats.

He couldn't be bothered to work out the acceleration of free-falling bodies that gained weight with each meter, but down the length of the spoke he was pretty sure they all ended in splat.

GRUNTS LOOK THE ENEMY IN THE EYE. GRUNTS KNOW THE STAKES. GRUNTS KNOW THE PRICE OF POOR STRATEGY. WHAT DO THE GENERALS KNOW? OVERLAYS AND TACTICAL PLOTS. THE WHOLE CHAIN OF COMMAND IS UPSIDE-DOWN. –KENNETH LUBIN, ZERO SUM

LEADERS ARE VISIONARIES WITH A POORLY DEVELOPED SENSE OF FEAR AND NO CONCEPT OF THE ODDS AGAINST THEM.

Çok cesur oldu?um için çok korkar?m.

An alliance with a powerful person is never safe.

Success tempts many to their ruin.

There is danger in both belief and unbelief.

Love can make you do things that you never thought possible

Forward, towards the danger!

When it comes to open flame, you're never as 'far enough back' as you think you are.

I was in the military for over ten years! If you can't read a battlefield you could accidentally surrender to your own officers, which is super embarrassing, if only because it'll get you shot.