Quotes About Risk

Miki said, It's okay, Rin. Don Abene is always cautious. I'd seen lots of dead cautious humans, but I wasn't going to say that to Miki.

I guess if you were really determined, you could find a way to get yourself killed by exposing the power connectors under the panels and shielding and, I don't know, licking them or something, but this dead human clearly hadn't.

Because change is terrifying. Choices are terrifying. But having a thing in your head that kills you if you make a mistake is more terrifying.

I have a plan." This was true. "I just don't know whether it will actually work or not." This, unfortunately, was also true.

Not every problem can be solved by you trying to get yourself killed.

I had stopped watching it when the mutants dragged off the group's biologist to eat him. Seriously, this was exactly the kind of situation I was designed to prevent.

In the bot-fighting business, small mistakes like that get you torn apart.

Join the Rienish navy. See unusual sights. Never sleep with the lights out again.

Kai." Ziede reached up to rub her face, apparently remembered her already ruined makeup, and planted her hands on her hips instead. "Could you manage not to find any more unique ways to destroy yourself until after we find this Hierarch? I don't really care to die alone." "Well, I'll try." It wasn't like Kai could make any promises right now.

She eyed Moon without favor. "And you. You have to be coaxed to do everything except risk your life.

I couldn't hack a combat bot without making a direct physical connection, and trying for that would result in me being torn apart. (I've been torn apart before, and on my list of things to avoid, it was right up there at the top.)

Yeah, good luck with that. Trying to get humans not to touch dangerous things was a full-time job.)

I couldn't risk the distraction of watching media, but I checked my storage space, and noted that I still had a comfortingly high number of episodes left in the new show I was watching. It helped, a little.

Let's investigate the dark cave without that pesky SecUnit" group.

If I was wrong, I'd probably be dead, and that was bad enough. Being stupid and dead would just be that much worse.

That was stupid." Everything was clear, sharp. Note to self, never, ever jump into a gunship with a bot pilot and fight off a construct Attacker code again. You almost deleted yourself, Murderbot

Si le pasaba algo al transporte, tendrían que volver a pata. Y nadarían, ya que había una masa de agua del tamaño de un océano entre esos dos puntos del mapa.

while I have been a key factor in certain clusterfucks of gigantic proportions and my risk assessment module has serious issues, my threat assessment record is pretty great

The lesson was: if you're going to fuck with something bigger and meaner than you, use a quick targeted attack and then run away really fast.

The most beautiful life that has been imagined is the life of the knight Don Quixote who created danger where he did not find it. But more beautiful still is the lived life of him who finds danger in all places. All creation stands on the edge of being; all creation is risk. He who does not risk his soul can only ape the creator.

This is the kingdom of God, the kingdom of danger and of risk, of eternal beginning and eternal becoming, of opened spirit and of deep realization, the kingdom of holy insecurity.

It's more than a little ironic that many of us preach safety first to our children, nieces, and nephews but in our roles as programmers scream for freedom, a hybrid of the Wild West gunslinger and teenage driver. Give us freedom, give us the resources, and watch us fly.

Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.

Space exploration was not for the squeamish.