Quotes About Risk

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." MARK TWAIN

I haven't lived a perfect life. I have regrets. But that's from a lifetime of taking chances, making decisions, and trying not to be frozen. The only thing that I can do with my regrets is understand them.

In security, you are only as secure as the weakest link.

Il fattore umano è l'anello più debole della sicurezza

This loan is like a short fuse on a long stick of dynamite. Many things can change in the course of 6 to 18 months while you're building your

Byte or Get Bitten

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!" —HUNTER S. THOMPSON

The psychopath emerges as anything up to five times more likely to beat, rape, kill, or mutilate his way back behind bars.

If the psychopath can "make" out of a situation, if there's any kind of reward on offer, they go for it, irrespective of risk or possible negative consequences.

My dad is a bank president and my mom was an accountant and they didn't think that seeking the life of a freelance writer was very practical, you see. Of course, I was just as determined to do it.

I have a feeling we're mooning a mean junkyard dog, all brave and laughing - until the dog's leash breaks

As a manager, you always have a gun to your head. It's a question of whether there is a bullet in the barrel.

The only way to avoid failure is to sit in a corner and do nothing.

I got so passionate about technology. Hacking to me was like a video game. It was about getting trophies. I just kept going on and on, despite all the trouble I was getting into, because I was hooked.

Companies spend millions of dollars on firewalls, encryption and secure access devices, and it's money wasted, because none of these measures address the weakest link in the security chain.

The human factor is truly security's weakest link

Here's how I think of my money - as soldiers - I send them out to war everyday. I want them to take prisoners and come home, so there's more of them.

Raising a mere $15,800 in cash, the Big Four, as history would know them, formed an enterprise that over the next decades would earn them $200 million in profits.

There is never any suggestion that the automation can fail and pilots do not train to address this abnormality.

Leadership is when you take a step into the darkness even when you cant see the stairs

The whole experience felt like what drugs must have felt like. It was the high of doing something weird, not knowing the outcome.

What you'll find, I think, is that the things you most want to avoid are the things that make you feel the greatest when you actually do them.

the best part of life is that one could be quite daring...

When bullets fly about, what is the point of sticking out your head and getting shot? The bullet is neutral. It hits the good and the bad, the important and insignificant, without distinction.