David Brin Quotes

I always check my harness before I do a stunt; I test-drive the cars I have to race or explode; I'm present at all pyrotechnical rehearsals; and I walk through everything step-by-step. No man should put their life in someone else's hands unless they have covered their own safety from all angles.

I have no problem with the security... It's something that must be done for the times in which we live. Safety first.

The bottom line is what we do might not be the safest so there is always some risk but we are ready to take that into account because we love racing and we love motor sports and it is dangerous.

If you don't have a voice that forces you back to basics, you're a dangerous person. Or to put it another way: You're at risk, and the people with you are at risk. I'm not a daredevil. I don't fly without a safety net.

There is a risk between toxicity and hazard. Just because it is a risk doesn't mean you are in danger.

Constituent demands must take a back seat to the safety of ... constituents as a whole.

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.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

You can never protect yourself 100%. What you do is protect yourself as much as possible and mitigate risk to an acceptable degree. You can never remove all risk.

There is a tremendous amount of support for the approach we have taken, which again is to base our decisions on risk analysis and thoughtful scientific process.

Given a choice between being happy or being efficient and safe, I'll take efficient and safe.

Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe.

Now, therefore, the Directors of the company are hereby ordered to see that precautions are taken to make travel on said railroad perfectly safe by using a screw with at least twenty-four inches diameter.

There is no doubt that Formula 1 has the best risk management of any sport and any industry in the world.

My plan was to land in Red Square, but there were too many people and I thought I'd cause casualties.

And one of the things we did here was we put the maximum amount of money up front in those cities that were at the greater risk, but that doesn't mean that we keep rebuilding the same security over and over again.

Policymakers have to make judgments based on the best intelligence they get.

I sleep on my stomach with my head under a bunch of pillows so if someone wants to come in and try to kill me they can't tell if I'm there or not, so they'll just leave.

We will have to continue to improve our human intelligence system-something that was, unfortunately, lacking in the years which led up to September 11. This is going to be a continuing process of change.

Intelligence is our first line of defense against terrorism, and we must improve the collection capabilities and analysis of intelligence to protect the security of the United States and its allies.

The safety of the people is the first and foremost responsibility of government… We are not as prepared as we should be with our public safety network…. The margin for error is exceedingly and uniquely low.

No risk that is preventable is acceptable.

Public health authorities exaggerate health risks for the same reason that sharks eat seals—because that’s just what they do.

Stopping people you don’t trust is an essential ingredient. It is part of owning and governing the territory you’re patrolling

Fermi thought that the conservative thing was to play down the possibility that a chain reaction might happen, and I thought that the conservative thing was to assume that it would happen and take all the necessary precautions.