Terry Pratchett Quotes

The question arises whether private companies can bear responsibility when considering the large risks involved with nuclear business.

We are ready for an unforeseen event that may or may not occur .

You can’t prepare for the best case; you have to prepare for the worst case.

Don’t ignore planning for unlikely events. Over long periods of time the highly improbable gets more probable to occur at least once.

It would be wonderful if we could avoid the setbacks with timely exits, but nobody has figured out how to predict them.

If nuclear power plants are safe, let the commerical insurance industry insure them. Until these most expert judges of risk are willing to gamble with their money, I'm not willing to gamble with the health and safety of my family.

Don't wait until you're in a crisis to come up with a crisis plan.

War zones are dangerous, protests can be violent, also, natural disasters are difficult to cover, so there are going to be risks.

Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.

I have noticed a marked improvement in FEMA and with the coordination of FEMA and the State agencies.

One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.

In the U.S.A. or Europe there is no realistic way to estimate the type, magnitude, or probability of the risk, nor any way to narrow down the potentially affected regions.

I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.

In any aircraft you fly, you always think about what can go wrong, and you plan for it in advance. You always have back-up plans.

We cannot stop natural disasters but we can arm ourselves with knowledge: so many lives wouldn't have to be lost if there was enough disaster preparedness.

My husband's family is military. Preparation is just, from that family perspective, it's just a part of what makes sense to do. You buy insurance for your house; you have a go bag.

As a country with experience of coping with earthquakes, tsunamis and other natural disasters, Japan believes in emphasizing the mainstreaming of disaster risk reduction. We therefore prioritize investment in disaster prevention and post-disaster improvements under a policy of Build Back Better (BBB).

No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time - but a good plan should keep a concentration from forming.

Anything you say before a pandemic occurs sounds alarmist; anything you say after it occurs is inadequate.

To prepare for a disaster, practice the worst case scenario. We don’t usually do that.

Sometimes we have to think very clearly about the unthinkable because the unthinkable sometimes happens.

The actions you plan to take and the actions you actually decide to take [in a crisis] are not always the same.

I’ve worked as a leader for many years and I’ve always trained myself to be prepared for the worst.

Before going into a room, make sure you can get out again.