Risk Assessment Quotes
Martel’s strategy was to allow the Saracen invaders to take a few towns and accumulate plenty of booty. This would slow them down as an army, and many of the individual soldiers was carrying looted goods of one kind or another.
He was describing a meeting that he and General Marshall had conducted with FDR, Secretary of State Cordell Hull and others. In less than two weeks, the Japanese would attack Pearl Harbor without any declaration of war, as Marshall had predicted.
The Admiral had spent time in the United States. He strongly opposed Japanese warring against America. When his recommendations, were rejected and war was decided upon, Yamamoto planned and commanded the Attack on Pearl Harbor.
Also published in What Do You Care What Other People Think, 1988. This was his last publication. He realized that NASA was under so much political and public relations pressure, that important science issues could not be faced squarely. So he wrote his own appendix to the report which was embarrassing to some of the administrators and contractors but was really appreciated by almost all of the scientists and engineers.
The risk of sharks and pigs to man is each very small. A few cases of wild hogs—there are millions of them in the world—attacking humans (particularly children) occur annually throughout the world. But the deaths from pigs are usually from diseases that the pigs carry that the person who eats the pig acquires. Shark attacks get a great deal of publicity, like terrorist attacks. Problems with pigs, snakes and other animals less so. So most people have a misperception of the relative risk.
