Neil Gaiman Quotes

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.

Investing is about making probabilistic decisions with limited information about an unknowable future. The variables are well known, as are the possible outcomes.

I can't tell you 100 percent what makes a relationship work. But I can see something good coming and I can see something bad coming.

Intelligence always carries uncertainties. That is the nature of the beast.

The expert is out to point out all the difficulties and dangers.

Uncertainty and danger are always closely allied, thus making any kind of an unknown world a world of peril and evil possibilities.

I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.

Female, I give you fair warning: you are playing with fire" - Tegan to Elise (Midnight Awakening

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.

I wanted us to share the sense that the number of wrong moves far exceeds the number of good moves, to share the frightening instability of the correct decision, to bond in being confounded.

I'm a firm believer in taking risks in life, because you'll never get anywhere unless you do, and the more risk involved the greater the outcome - or the worse, but you never know so you've got to go for it.

The most difficult of decisions are often not the ones in which we cannot determine the correct course; rather the ones in which we are certain of the path but fear the journey.

'Why risk?' I responded. 'It should be, why not to risk?'

There are points where you worry that you might be putting too much in and alienating the audience. But, funnily enough, some of those fears aren't correct.

He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

Her eyes flicked over the cards, looked at Dimitri, then looked back at the cards. Her expression was blank. "You will lose what you value most, so treasure it while you can." She pointed to the Wheel of Fortune card. "The wheel is turning, always turning.

Be careful what you wish for. You never know who will be listening.

The world is not bound to get better as a result of new discoveries in science and technology, nor is it bound to get worse, there will simply be new opportunities for making it better or worse.

If you sat with a pencil and jotted down all the decisions you've taken in the past week, or, if you could, over your lifetime, you would realize that almost all of them have had asymmetric payoff, with one side carrying a larger consequence than the other. You decide principally based on fragility, not probability. Or to rephrase, You decide principally based on fragility, not so much on True/False.

Even those who venture to dip a toe in the pond of risk never allow themselves to get used to the water.

I love you all. But it's time to say good-bye, for now. be careful with the world, or the next time we meet, it might get ugly. -Tally Youngblood

When the Foxe preacheth, beware geese.

If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.

I gave them a fair warning