Robustness Quotes

… to the strongest

Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.

Strength is life, Weakness is death.

It is often the mistakes of others that benefit the rest of us and, sadly, not them ... For the antifragile, harm from errors should be less than the benefits.

Most people are robust. If a man puts his hand on a woman’s bottom, any woman worth her salt can deal with it. It is communication. Can’t we be friendly?

Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness.

When the sovereign spirit within us is true to nature, it stands poised and ready to adjust to every change in circumstances and to seize each new opportunity. It doesn't approach an object with prejudice or preconception, but handles each thing dispassionately before embracing it and, if necessary, finds advantage in what opposes it. It is like fire in this regard. Whereas a feeble flame might suffocate under a pile of dry sticks, a robust fire consumes everything it touches. The more objects of any kind heaped on it, the higher it rises, the hotter it burns.

I feel as fit as a bull moose.

I'm a huge Marvel fan, and the fact that they take the liberties that they do in filmmaking - I think, if anything, that it dignifies the comics, and it says, 'Yeah. This is a strong enough, robust enough source. We can bend it; it's elastic. It's bouncy.'

I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write.

There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.

I have legs of iron, but to tell you the truth, they're starting to rust and buckle a bit.

When you break bones, they heal up and come back even stronger.

Life has survived for more than three billion years because it is robust, and almost no mutations can easily outwit the defense mechanisms built up through eons of exposure to potential pathogens.

Companies selling a product play down its vulnerability and emphasize its robustness. But only after technology leaves the dock is it really tested. For human operators in control of a supposedly infallible system, complacency and overconfidence can take over, and caution may be thrown to the wind.

Nothing can prepare you fully for how harsh football fans can be, but it makes you more robust, able to deal with a lot of what is thrown at you in life.

I've taken great pride in not being fragile.

I'm virile, vigorous, and potent!

Mike Brown is a big guy; he's very durable. He's extremely strong and very well-rounded.

History is more robust than poetry because it is more truthful.

You can have size but to be physical is a different story.

I have not been more robust towards female rather than male assembly members and I do not believe I have been remotely sexist.

If you want to give me a good faceful for one of my political positions, I can take it.

Hardship, in forcing us to exercise greater patience and forbearance in daily life, actually makes us stronger and more robust. From the daily experience of hardship comes a greater capacity to accept difficulties without losing our sense of inner calm. Of course, I do not advocate seeking out hardship as a way of life, but merely wish to suggest that, if you relate to it constructively, it can bring greater inner strength and fortitude.

Our philosophy is we call it as we see it. Sometimes you agree, sometimes you don't. Robust debate is good.