Dennis Lindley Quotes

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

Risk is the salt and sugar of life.

Life is dangerous and you're not gonna live a life without risk.

A reasonable probability is the only certainty.

Risk is not a dirty word.

It is not surprising that in talking about uncertainty we should lean heavily on facts, just as the court of law does when interrogating witnesses. Facts form a sort of bedrock on which we can build the shifting sands of uncertainty.

When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous.

Risk is the price you pay for opportunity.

Four elements make up the climate of war: danger, exertion, uncertainty and chance.

You say this victory is dangerous. I say that today no one can yet tell if it's dangerous, that today I don't see the risks you mention. If, however, those risks should become reality...I'll act in accordance with the new reality.

What is life, but one long risk?

We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.

Assumptions are dangerous things to make, and like all dangerous things to make - bombs, for instance, or strawberry shortcake - if you make even the tiniest mistake you can find yourself in terrible trouble.

Living safely is dangerous.

There was no protection, no quota system when it came to luck. It was like that moment in math when a child learns that the odds of heads or tails is always one-in-two, no matter how many times one has flipped the coin and gotten heads. Every flip, the odds are the same. Every day, you could be unlucky all over again.

My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous, which is not exactly the same as bad.

There's nothing as safe as ignorance or as dangerous.

Every crisis has both its dangers and its opportunities. Each can spell either salvation or doom.

I ignored the flashes of lightning all around me. They either had your number on them or they didn't.

June smiled. "So what will it be? Safety, or a future of pain and possibility?"

Never tempt fate. It plays for keeps.

Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk.

Life is dangerous. That's what makes it interesting.

That's the way the system works. Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you.

Life is the risk we cannot refuse.