"Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every……" — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic saved lives because we're building bigger and bigger ships. So these people died, but we have effectively improved the safety of the system, and nothing failed in vain."
—
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
219 Quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb has 219 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
I no longer care about the financial system. I gave them my roadmap. OK? Thanks, bye. I've no idea what's…
-
Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a…
-
Work hard, not in grunt work, but in chasing such opportunities and maximizing exposure to them. This makes living in…
-
...maximize the serendipity around you.
-
Answer e-mails from junior people before more senior ones. Junior people have further to go and tend to remember who…
-
Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.
-
He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once.
-
Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.
-
Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I’d…
-
This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the…
-
Many people keep deploring the low level of formal education in the United states (as defined by, say, math grades).…
-
But they never notice the following inconsistency: this so-called worst-case event, when it happened, exceeded the worst case at the…
See all 219 quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb »
More Airline Quotes
This quote is filed under Airline Quotes,
one of 170 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
This airline is grateful for his extensive contributions and we will miss his friendship and support. We extend our deepest…
— Gerard Arpey
-
Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear…
— Cecil Beaton
-
It's the old adage: You can make a pizza so cheap, nobody will eat it. You can make an airline…
— Gordon Bethune
-
I've spent my life as an airplane mechanic, pilot, aircraft manufacturer and airline CEO who never lost a life or…
— Gordon Bethune
-
This is absolutely bizarre that we continue to subsidize highways beyond the gasoline tax, airlines, and we don't subsidize, we…
— Joe Biden
-
I've got stuff about airline mergers, which just shows that my stand-up is getting more insane by the minute.
— Lewis Black
-
I do not have a merchandise line. I don't sell knives or apparel. Though I have been approached to endorse…
— Anthony Bourdain
-
If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.
— Richard Branson
-
Unless they can immediately demonstrate a credible fear of persecution, why shouldn't these people be returned at once to the…
— Ed Koch
-
Can a physicist visualize an electron? The electron is materially inconceivable and yet, it is so perfectly known through its…
— Wernher von Braun
-
The greatest threat now is a 9/11 occurring with a group of terrorists armed not with airline tickets and box…
— Dick Cheney
-
I have to say that flying on Air Force One sort of spoils you for coach on a regular airline.
— Ron Reagan
See all 170 Airline Quotes »