Low Probability Quotes

Very low probability events occur very rarely, but sometimes they do happen.

When asked what he meant by a miracle: Oh, anything with a probability of less than 20%.

The last thing I ever wanted to get involved with is Hollywood. The way it works is that people get an idea you could possibly do something, but there's a one-in-a-hundred chance that it could get made.

You can't just count on becoming a syndicated cartoonist. I actually tried to calculate the odds once, and the best I could come up with is a 1-in-36,000 chance. And the odds of getting hit by lightning are 1 in 7,900 - which kind of shows how long those odds are.

I despise the Lottery. There's less chance of you becoming a millionaire than there is of getting hit on the head by a passing asteroid.

My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive.

I was told I had a two per cent chance of getting pregnant, so I say she's a two per cent baby.

You could live in Winnipeg a thousand years and not meet Ringo, Paul McCartney, or Bob Dylan.

The public totally discounts low-probability high-consequence events. The individual says, it's not going to be this plane, this bus, this time.

Frazier's got two chances. Slim, and none. And Slim just left town

I'll be honest with you: not a chance in this world. But you know, stranger things have happened.

Nonetheless, it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low order of probability.

The risk of a business being hit by a low probability, high impact event is far higher than most boards realize because the number of potential wild cards is so great.

You are twice as likely to be struck by lightning as you around to be affected by a terrorist event in the United States.

I was never supposed to get a record deal - that's one in a million.

We have to deal with this new type of threat in a way we haven’t yet defined. . . . With a low-probability, high-impact event like this . . . If there’s a one percent chance that Pakistani scientists are helping al Qaeda build or develop a nuclear weapon, we have to treat it as a certainty in terms of our response.

The state of radio is not great. It's like playing the lottery. The chances of hitting are mind boggling slim.

I was told that there's near on a million to one chance that I would be able to have children.

I knew the statistics of playing pro football were 1% of 1%, so I just never planned on it.

The chances of anyone of any race getting their own show are, like, .001 percent.