Risk Quote by Gerd Gigerenzer

“As if the uncertainty is an absolute certainty.”

— Faizan Ahmad Zargar

“This idea that in order to make a decision you need to focus on the consequences (which you can know) rather than the probability…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Inaccurate estimates are a failure of information, not of values or principles. If the numbers are wrong, fix the numbers and communicate the consequences.”

— Kent Beck

“Printing mistakes adds value because of the probability calculus, which makes their intrusion into something problematic and almost impossible, even when everything's conceived, precisely,…

— Romain Gary

“Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.”

— Voltaire

“There is no possibility I have made a mistake. Everything that happens as a result of my actions is one of calculation and certainty.…

— Adolf Hitler

“Don’t mistake possibilities for probabilities.”

— Ray Dalio

The only certainty is uncertainty

— Pliny the Elder

“Risk, as first articulated by the economist Frank H. Knight in 1921, is somethimg that you can put a price on.......Uncertainty, on the other…

— Nate Silver

There is no more common error than to assume that, because prolonged and accurate mathematical calculations have been made, the application of the result…

— Alfred North Whitehead

I know too well that these arguments from probabilities are imposters, and unless great caution is observed in the use of them, they are…

— Plato

The problem with certainty is that it is static; it can do little but endlessly reassert itself. Uncertainty, by contrast, is full of unknowns,…

— Stephen Batchelor