Quotes About Risk

The nature of computerized systems makes it easier for the attacker to find one exploitable vulnerability in a system than for the defender to find and fix all vulnerabilities in the system.

Anyone who tries to create his or her own cryptographic primitive is either a genius or a fool. Givent the geius/fool ratio of our species, the odds aren't very good.

Anyone who tries to create his or her own cryptographic primitive is either a genius or a fool. Givent the genius/fool ratio of our species, the odds aren't very good.

Security is hard; while you can show that a particular algorithm is weak, you can't show that one algorithm you don't know how to break is more secure than another.

Will you walk with me out on the wire, cuz baby, I'm just a scared and lonely rider, but I gotta know how it feels... I want to know love is wild, babe, I want to know love is real.

A moment comes when you cash in whatever credibility a guy can have who plays and sings rock songs for a living, and you put your chips where you think they might do some good.

All you need to do, is risk being your true self.

Was auch immer ihre Beweggründe waren - klug oder unklug, davonrennen oder oder nach Neuem suchen-, es erforderte Mut und Entschlossenheit und das Bedürfnis nach einer letzten Chance, um an die Zukunft zu glauben.

Anywhere there is variety there is the risk of change. Change that can't be tolerated.

bio-safety rules were ten times as strict, or supposed to be. Maybe plutonium was bad, but it couldn't jump out of a tank and grow by itself.

Alex direly wanted to try something stupid, but he wasn't about try anything stupid under these circumstances. He'd wait till he won their confidence, till they gave him a lot more initiative and leeway. Then he'd try something stupid.

I've always had confidence. Before I was famous, that confidence got me into trouble. After I got famous, it just got me into more trouble.

By 1932 his debt had grown to more than four million dollars, far more than his net worth. "Aren't you concerned about owing all this money you can't pay?" Ernest Closuit asked him. "No," Murchison said with a smile. "If you're gonna owe money, owe more than you can pay, then the people can't afford to foreclose.

Recognize that ultimate success comes from opportunistic, bold moves which, by definition, cannot be planned.

You can either be a dead hero or a live coward

By preserving a person named Daniel, God was preserving a nation called Israel in order to send a Savior named Jesus to save persons like us and ten thousand times ten thousand more of the same. Daniel's willingness to risk everything to make that redeeming God powerfully known expresses how great and precious is the incomparable grace of God toward those who will trust in him.

Danger is cool.

Stir not murky waters if you know not the depth or the creatures that dwell beneath the surface.

Do you want to have sex? I think we should have sex. CASUAL sex.

The danger of freedom is real, but enforced safety reeks of a much more odious danger.

Every shortcut has a price usually greater than the reward.

All life is a gamble, and every man must choose his own risks.

Those youngsters go out there and set a record and clinch the pole position. But what do you do if you wreck your car. That record doesn't spend too well.

All tanning should be considered visible evidence of toxic injury.