Bus Quote by Amanda Ripley

“Consequences must outweigh probabilities”

— Blaise Pascal

If one took no chances, one would not fly at all. Safety lies in the judgment of the chances one takes.

— Charles Lindbergh

The probability that we will get into a car accident is a million times higher than the probability we will suffer as a result…

— Pavel Durov

The men and women who make up a plane's crew put their lives in jeopardy each time they fly. It's our job as much…

— Dave Reichert

“Anticipating the worst doesn’t provide insurance from the worst happening,”

— Gabrielle Zevin

High-consequence risks have a distinctive quality. The more calamitous the hazards they involve, the less we have any real experience of what we risk:…

— Anthony Giddens

“as per the law of unintended consequences, no matter what people’s intention when they do something, they rarely know what the ultimate outcome of…

— James Wallman

When I was in motor racing, I had taken the decision to risk my life. But when you run an airline, and more than…

— Niki Lauda

“Governments are wasting billions of dollars on attempting to predict events that are produced by interdependent systems and are therefore not statistically understandable at…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“There’s a big difference between probability and outcome. Probable things fail to happen—and improbable things happen—all the time.” That”

— Howard Marks

It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen.

— Aristotle

...(that) any general system of conveying passengers would ... go at a velocity exceeding ten miles an hour, or thereabouts, is extremely improbable.

— Thomas Tredgold