Quotes About Risk

Do people still shoot at presidents? I thought there were more stimulating targets.

Women have faith in the mechanics of adjustment. A woman knows how to want something. She'll take chances to secure the future.

Crowds came to form a shield against their own dying. To become a crowd is to keep out death. To break off from the crowd is to risk death as an individual, to face dying alone.

Stun me. I mean it. Draw the gun and shoot. I want you to do it, Kendra. Show me what it feels like. I'm looking for more. Show me something I don't know. Stun me to my DNA. Come on, do it. Click the switch. Aim and fire. I want the volts the weapon holds. Do it. Shoot it. Now.

It makes me feel true to the system, knowing that unnecessary risk is integral to the code of urban pathology.

The question is can you cure the disease before it kills you? Once you set out consciously to cure the disease, as I did even before I knew the word cancer, you run the risk of catching it. Comprende? Whatever you set your mind to, your personal total obsession, this is what kills you. Poetry kills you if you're a poet, and so on. People choose their death whether they know it or not.

Only the fiercest risks make existence possible.

If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity.

Every day on the news there's another toxic spill. Cancerous solvents from storage tanks, arsenic from smokestacks, radioactive water from power plants. How serious can it be if it happens all the time? Isn't the definition of a serious event based on the fact that it's not an everyday occurrence?

Crowds came to form a shield against their own dying. To become a crowd is to keep out death. To break off from the crowd is to risk death as an individual, to face dying alone. Crowds came for this reason above all others. They were there to be a crowd.

This was your fatal flaw–you always had a backup plan. You were never willing to risk everything.

The way you react has been repeated thousands of times, and it has become a routine for you. You are conditioned to be a certain way. And that is the challenge: to change your normal reactions, to change your routine, to take a risk and make different choices.

Wyobra? sobie ?ycie bez l?ku przed podejmowaniem ryzyka i poznawaniem ?wiata. Nie boisz si? czegokolwiek straci?. Nie boisz si? ?y? i nie boisz si? umrze?.

Tanr? için kan?t aramay?n. Sadece olun, risk al?n ve yaÅŸam?n?zdan haz al?n. Önemli olan budur. Hay?r demek istediÄŸinizde hay?r deyin. Evet demek istediÄŸinizde evet deyin. Sizin kendiniz olmaya hakk?n?z var. Ancak yapabileceÄŸinizin en iyisini yapt???n?zda kendiniz olursunuz. En iyisini yapmad???n?zda, kendiniz olma hakk?n? elinizden al?yorsunuz.

Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive-- the risk to be alive and express what we really are.

If designers and researchers do not sometimes fail, it is a sign that they are not trying hard enough—they are not thinking the great creative thoughts that will provide breakthroughs in how we do things. It is possible to avoid failure, to always be safe. But that is also the route to a dull, uninteresting life.

It is possible to avoid failure, to always be safe. But that is also the route to a dull, uninteresting life.

So we push the boundaries: we stay up far longer than is natural. We try to do too many tasks at the same time. We drive faster than is safe. Most of the time we manage okay. We might even be rewarded and praised for our heroic efforts. But when things go wrong and we fail, then this same behavior is blamed and punished.

Designers need to focus their attention on the cases where things go wrong, not just on when things work as planned.

Danger awaits those who deliberately violate the frames of a culture.

Make something too secure, and it becomes less secure.

Be like Sindbad. Venture forth! Embosom the waves, let your shoes be sucked from your feet and your very trousers enticed by the frothing deep. The ambiguous sea awaits, I told them, marry it! There's nothing out there, they said. Wrong, I said, absolutely wrong. There are waltzes, sword canes, and sea wrack dazzling to the eyes.

Reducing risk, which is the primary mission of testing, clearly creates economic value for product developers. In fact, reducing risk is so centrally important to product development that it is indispensable for us to quantify its economic impact.

We live in an uncertain world. We must recognize that our original plan was based on noisy data, viewed from a long time-horizon.