Nancy Leveson Quotes

Highly reliable components are not necessarily safe.

Nancy Leveson

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• Mining is a dangerous profession. There's no way to make a mine completely safe: These are the words owners have always used to excuse needless deaths and the words miners use to prepare for them.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Words
  • Dangerous
  • Safe

• I practice safe sex - I use an airbag.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Practice
  • Sex
  • Safe

• It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.

  

  Harold W. Dodds
  • Best
  • Safe
  • Insecurity

• Everybody after Fukushima had to reassess the safety of nuclear. When I set out to design a reactor, I knew it had to be passive and intrinsically safe.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Design
  • Safety
  • Safe

• If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.

  

  Katharine Butler Hathaway
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Safe

• Meat and poultry is safe. It's safer than it's probably ever been.

  

  Dan Glickman
  • Safe
  • Ever
  • Meat

• The federal government has invested billions in Metro, yet the system is not safe and is not reliable.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Government
  • System
  • Safe

• The Morganville in her wanted to tell people to go home and be safe, but she knew that was verging on crazy. The world these laughing people lived in was a very different place. She was in a very different place.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • People
  • World
  • Home

• And that, Claire thought, was why Morley had been right about this, even if he was a complete vampire about it. You had to save what you could. Amelie had understood that all along, Claire realized. That was why Morganville existed. Because you had to try.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Why
  • Safe
  • Vampire

• We are the party of Roosevelt. We are the party of Kennedy. So don't tell me that Democrats won't defend this country. Don't tell me that Democrats won't keep us safe.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • Party
  • Safe

• We are on alert 24/7. And everything that you report will be investigated. We do it in private. We do it covertly. This could be a problem, it could simply be your neighbor having a bad day. But better be safe than sorry.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Bad
  • Sorry
  • Safe

• Judgment is such a useful shield, isn't it? We can hide behind it, rise above others on its crest, keep ourselves safe and separate.

  

  Lisa Unger
  • Judgment
  • Safe
  • Separate

• Of course, I started as a collector. A true collector. I can remember as if it were only yesterday the heart-pounding excitement as I spread out upon the floor of my bedroom The Edward G. Robinson Collection of Rare Cigar Bands. I didn't play at collecting. No cigar anywhere was safe from me.

  

  Edward G. Robinson
  • Heart
  • Remember
  • True

• Mexico is a safe, as well as a beautiful and warmly gracious, place to visit.

  

  Margaret Chan
  • Beautiful
  • Place
  • Safe

• Any woman should have the right to a safe and legal abortion.

  

  Betty Ford
  • Should
  • Safe
  • Abortion

• [U]nless a woman is held, by man, safe within the bounds of belief, she becomes inevitably a destructive force.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Women
  • She
  • Belief

• Life is too short to be safe and sit still and do nothing. Unless of course that is what God has for you to do in a particular place in your life.

  

  Mary Elizabeth Lease
  • Life
  • God
  • Short

• So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science the offspring, to divulge the hidden causes of things.

  

  Johannes Kepler
  • Mother
  • Science
  • Ignorance

• Of course I believe in aliens. Are you so arrogant as to believe we are alone in this universe?

  

  Tom Cruise
  • Universe
  • Aliens
  • I Believe In

• Highly reliable components are not necessarily safe.

  

  Nancy Leveson
  • Safe
  • Components
  • Highly Reliable