Pavel Durov Quotes

You're safer in the race car than you are in cars going to and from the track.

Yeah, it's risky, but no more risky than driving a car.

If a neighbor is killed in a car accident, do you sell your car and stop driving?

In survey after survey, people report that the greatest dangers they face are, in this order: terrorist attack, plane crashes and nuclear accidents. This despite the fact that these three combined have killed fewer people in the past half-century than car accidents do in any given year.

Is there some risk every day we walk out our front door? Every time we get in our car? Yeah. Are we materially less safe now than we were 10 years ago? Whatever delta there is, it's very small.

A couple of days back, I got into a car accident. Not my fault. Even if it's not your fault, the other person gets out of their car and looks at you like it's your fault: Why did you stop at a red light and let me hit you doing 80!

Everything is removed. You're actually doing something dangerous when you get in your car, when you're getting on an airplane, or having sex.

One of those professional drivers hit one of those blockade barriers. It was the first car accident I have ever been in, so I was a little startled.

In August of 2002, I survived a car accident. Although I can still see the van speeding toward us, I cannot bring to mind the crash itself - only its aftermath.

I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys.

He leaned about the same way in falling towards Jacqueline, forward, down towards the bottom of the car.

Local teenagers killed in a car crash is a suburban legend, a stock plot line.

I don't want to die in a car accident. When I die it'll be a glorious day. It'll probably be a waterfall.

You are twice as likely to be struck by lightning as you around to be affected by a terrorist event in the United States.

Well, I've been in a few car wrecks.

I did have one bad accident up north near Deerhurst. I was driving back in the winter on these snowy roads, and these two snowmobilers were racing up a hill and they weren't looking, so they caught me as I was going up the other side of the hill, and they smashed into me.

Marketers use big data profiling to predict who is about to get pregnant, who is likely to buy a new car, and who is about to change sexual orientations. That's how they know what ads to send to whom. The NSA, meanwhile, wants to know who is likely to commit an act of terrorism - and for this, they need us.

My dad went at 86. A car killed him. He was crossing the road.

No company can be expected to build a nuclear reactor, an oil well, a coal mine, or anything else that's one hundred percent safe under all circumstances. The costs would be prohibitive. It's unreasonable to expect corporations to totally guard against small chances of every potential accident.

Despite living in this post-9/11 age of transnational terrorism, the risk of death during air travel has plummeted to the point where we now measure it in the 'per billions' of passengers.

The M6 is terrible and there are always accidents when there is a big highway with lots of traffic.

I was involved in a serious accident driving in torrential rain at midnight in Cardiff. I was only doing five miles an hour, but because I couldn't see very well, I crossed a junction and collided with another car that was driving very fast. I ended up in hospital for six weeks with a shattered pelvis.

The $25,000 stunt was a demonstration of the automobile air bag system for an Allstate Insurance television commercial. I drove a car into a concrete obstacle at 25 m.p.h.

If you get rid of emotion for a minute and think about the threat of terrorism statistically, it's not even there. The probability that you will slip on a wet floor in your bathroom and die is a thousand times higher than the probability of you dying as a result of terrorism.

This is a big debate concerning the values of the society in question: Whether the risk of a terrorist act is more important than the 100 percent right to privacy.