Unforeseen Risks Quotes

While most of the things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different story with the things you haven't worried about. They are the ones that happen.

The most dangerous moment comes with victory.

You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in - in 2007, we just didn't know it was uncertain. It was - uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn't know it.

Our biggest risk is ourselves.

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

I have a great risk of meeting a fool at home, but the candidate who travels cannot escape him.

The power of the people pervading the proposed system, together with the strong confederation of the states, will form an adequate security against every danger that has been apprehended.

the greatest danger is always the one we are ignorant of.

What you don't know can hurt you.

Anyone who has ever studied the history of American diplomacy, especially military diplomacy, knows that you might start in a war with certain things on your mind as a purpose of what you are doing, but in the end, you found yourself fighting for entirely different things that you had never thought of before ... In other words, war has a momentum of its own and it carries you away from all thoughtful intentions when you get into it. Today, if we went into Iraq, like the president would like us to do, you know where you begin. You never know where you are going to end.

Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.

The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated.

If you open that Pandora's Box you never know what Trojan 'orses will jump out.

Threats I have faced are unprecedented.

Sometimes, our expectations of being all-knowing is somewhat unrealistic. At the end of the day, there are people out there who mean harm to us, are thinking about doing harm to us and motivated to do it, and we don't know what that is.

If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.

There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip.

Too little attention is paid to the dark side of incentives. They are anything but a magic bullet. Psychologists have known this for years, but it seems largely hidden from the world of commerce.

You can't prepare for something that you can't prepare for.

We cannot stop what we cannot see.

It is nearly always invisible dangers that are the most terrifying.

You were not in control You had no visibility: maybe there was a car in front of you, maybe not.

It may be that the very qualities that help people get ahead are the ones that make them ill-suited for managing crises. It's hard to prepare for the worst when you think you're the best.

Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.

There's no such thing as a foolproof system. That idea fails to take into account the creativity of fools.