Quotes About Risk

It is with this thought that many believers would call up Kierkegaard's famous phrase, the 'leap of faith,' pictured perhaps as a leap from here to there, leaving out the in-between... What is usually overlooked, however, is that Kierkegaard said nothing about a safe landing; there was only the leap, and no guarantee of solid ground beyond it.

Here's a freebie: Don't play poker with a kid who can read minds.

Max: "Fang! This is a huge break! Of course we should go check it out!" Fang: "But we're grounded." Max and Fang: (stare at each other for a second and burst out laughing)

Never let a serial killer buy you coffee

Everything changed, and eleven months later, here I was in the middle of the night with a gungho major, playing secret agent, hoping some Frenchie didn't put a bullet in my skull before I gave the Germans and Italians their chance.

Except for a roll of Harding's eyes, everyone ignored me, which is the way I liked it when I had to hang around with senior officers. They had a way of thinking up ideas that got you killed and them promoted.

Taxes cause the most bad business decisions.

Better to head off into the unknown than stay here, where death was most certain

no one in their right mind would ever rob graves in broad daylight.

You just can't keep your ass out of trouble, can you?" Kowalski said. The big man had stripped out of his protective wetsuit and wore boots, a pair of knee-length cargo shorts, and a Tommy Bahama shirt.

Only Kowalski voiced a dissent. "C'mon, guys. Does that really sound like a place we want to go?

when it came to explosives and radios, bad things sometimes happened to good engineers.

And I honor the man who is willing to sinkHalf his present repute for the freedom to think,And, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak,Will risk t' other half for the freedom to speak.

Fate loves the fearless.

You must go further than I did," Nedra said. "You know that." "Further?" "With your life. You must become free." She did not explain it; she could not. It was not a matter of living alone, though in her case this had been necessary. The freedom she meant was self-conquest. It was not a natural state. It was meant only for those who would risk everything for it, who were aware that without it life is only appetites until the teeth are gone.

Most IoT devices that lack security by design simply pass the security responsibility to the consumer, thus, treating the customers as techno-crash test dummies. James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

The Frankensteined architectonic IoT microcosm of the prototypical critical infrastructure organization renders an infinite attack surface just begging to be exploited.

The most successful attacks by more sophisticated hackers tend to be strategically "indirect". Why risk attacking Target directly and getting caught. Just hack the HVAC contractor and use their access to Target's network

Practise your confidence tricks on the street and you risk getting shot by trigger-happy security guards; do it in the office and you get put on the board.

Soothsayer's warning to Antony in Antony and Cleopatra, "If thou dost play with him at any game, / Thou art sure to lose" (2.3.26–27)

When you let the wolves guard the hen house, there's bound to be a few chicken dinners.

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.

The most dangerous food is wedding cake.

it better to throw yourself head first and laughing into the holy rage calling your name?