Face Quote by David Ignatius

Historical experience shows that a crisis causes either a recovery or catastrophic consequences.

— Sergei Lavrov

The possibility of disaster remains horrific to me. Like when you know everything's about to go wrong in a way that's not controllable or…

— John Darnielle

Finding out exactly what went wrong is key toward preventing future debacles.

— Chuck Grassley

Bad things happen. And the human brain is especially adept at making sure that we keep track of these events. This is an adaptive…

— David Perlmutter

Understanding why something happened does not help to reduce the problem.

— Richard Bandler

Human crises have a way of happening at inconvenient times.

— Amelia Earhart

Sometimes, disaster can inspire ingenuity.

— Michael Arden

A crisis, by its very nature, is a negative event.

— Judy Smith

“It is far easier to figure out if something is fragile than to predict the occurrence of an event that may harm it.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I think the most fundamental error we make is mistaking a noisy, anomalous event for the norm. This happens all the time - in…

— Stephen J. Dubner

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

— Ambrose Bierce

There's something that intervenes and is very important which has to do with value. Value in the true biological sense, which is that contrary…

— Antonio Damasio