Mitigation Quotes

The chief cause of problems is solutions.

He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over.

We cannot protect everything, all of the time.

When to prevent? When to adapt?" Noting that prevention tends to cost more and favors elites, while adaptation costs less and favors the average person…

… problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

We can never protect 100% of the population against 100% of the vicissitudes of life.

The challenge of our times is to leave nothing to chance.

Always think, 'what's the worst that can happen' and have some kind of strategy to deal with it

For a trivial offence, a free man shall be fined only in proportion to the degree of his offence, and for a serious offence correspondingly, but not so heavily as to deprive him of his livelihood.

Why was so much done in remedying the evil instead of avoiding it in the first place?

Always attempting to tame and subjugate nature is not the solution. But the latest science is helping us to map out a path across this shifting landscape in uncertain times, showing us how to work with natural forces, not against them.

At the end of the day, the goals are simple: safety and security.

No risk that is preventable is acceptable.

One cannot plan for the unexpected.

There is nothing we can do to assure that this will never happen, but there is a lot we can do to assure that it happens more rarely.

The earlier you start to solve a problem, the less draconian the solution needs to be.

I didn't feel at all guilty about what I did, so I couldn't plead guilty, even though I would get a more lenient sentence.

Beauty and art pervade all the business of life like a kindly genius, brightly adorning our surroundings whether interior or exterior, mitigating the seriousness of existence and the complexities of the real life, extinguishing idleness in an entertaining fashion, and, where there is nothing good to be achieved, filling the place of vice better than vice itself.

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

It is far more humane to prevent suffering than to alleviate it after it has occurred.

We can't simply blame the engineers when things go wrong because, no matter how well they plan, things don't always go according to plan.

We are not safe. We are safer than we were, but we are not as safe as we could be.

A man may take measures to secure the happy action and to guard against the unhappy action.

Predictability can eventually be defended.