Quotes About Risk

Scientists tend to risk theories they admire

I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet. But I'm an optimist. We will reach out to the stars.

In short, the advent of super-intelligent AI would be either the best or the worst thing ever to happen to humanity. The real risk with AI isn't malice but competence. A super-intelligent AI will be extremely good at accomplishing its goals, and if those goals aren't aligned with ours we're in trouble.

So if a beautiful alien in a flying saucer invites you into her time machine, step with care. You might fall into one of these trapped repeating histories of only finite duration.

When we invented fire, we messed up repeatedly, then invented the fire extinguisher. With more powerful technologies such as nuclear weapons, synthetic biology and strong artificial intelligence, we should instead plan ahead and aim to get things right the first time, because it may be the only chance we will get. Our future is a race between the growing power of our technology and the wisdom with which we use it. Let's make sure that wisdom wins.

One way or another, I regard it as almost inevitable that either a nuclear confrontation or environmental catastrophe will cripple the Earth at some point in the next 1,000 years

from ourselves. I am convinced that humans need to leave Earth. If we stay, we risk being annihilated.

All the evidence points to God being an inveterate gambler, who throws the dice on every possible occasion.

Estoy convencido de que los humanos necesitamos dejar la Tierra para evitar correr el riesgo de ser aniquilados.

In 2010, computerised trading systems created the stock-market Flash Crash; what would a computer-triggered crash look like in the defence arena?

When love invades your heart, you are empowered to endure deeper pain, willingly pay a greater cost, and run risks to your reputation for the sake of another.

You can't be careful on a skateboard.

What if I fall?', Tim cried. Maerlyn laughed. 'Sooner or later, we all do.

there is no gain without risk, perhaps no risk without love.

How many have to die before we will give up these dangerous toys?

There's a dark well in everyone, I think, and it never goes dry. But you drink from it at your peril. That water is poison.

Our time here is brief, our risk enormous. Don't waste the one or increase the other, if you please.

Directing teenage actors is like juggling jars of nitro-glycerine: exhilarating and dangerous.

If you want to play, you gotta pay.

What I know now is that gallant young men rarely get pussy. Put it on a sampler and hang it in your kitchen.

I'm so afraid that all I can reach will lead me to all I dare not see.

Disquiet and desire. What you want and what you're scared to try for. Where you've been and where you want to go. Something in a rock-and-roll song about wanting the girl, the car, the place to stand and be. Oh please God can you dig it.

no knowledge obtained without risk

This is what romance gets you--a noose around your neck and a crazy woman with two guns somewhere behind you.