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“We have to deal with this new type of threat in a way we haven’t yet defined. . . . With a low-probability, high-impact event like this . . . If there’s a one percent chance that Pakistani scientists are helping al Qaeda build or develop a nuclear weapon, we have to treat it as a certainty in terms of our response.”

Ifs Way Helping Term Chance Deals Events Havens Type Weapons Lows Percent Scientist Treats Impact Threat Response Nuclear Defined Certainty Als Nuclear Weapons Probability Al Qaeda

Author:Dick Cheney

“The probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end there will be thousands of very successful practitioners of coin tossing, or stock picking.”

Ends Millions Successful Ten Percent Investors Probability Coins Consecutive Tossers

Book:The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World

Source: The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World

“motivation is highest when the probability of success is 50 percent: We don't get involved if the task is too easy or too hard.”

Ifs Hard Motivation Easy Involved Highest Percent Tasks Probability Get Involved

Book:Danger in the Comfort Zone: From Boardroom to Mailroom--how to Break the Entitlement Habit That's Killing American Business

Source: Danger in the Comfort Zone: From Boardroom to Mailroom--how to Break the Entitlement Habit That's Killing American Business

“Obviously, things can get derailed, particularly if, which looks more and more likely, you get a blow-up between Israel and Iran. I think that's a very real probability now. But barring some real blow-up, the U.S. economy will grow, after a slow first quarter, about 3, 3.5 percent this year, far better than it was in 2011.”

Ifs Thinking Years Firsts Looks Real Grows Economy Percent Blow Israel Iran Quarters Probability

Author:Steve Forbes

“If zero percent of the elites support something, very low chance it's going to pass, if 100% support something, very high chance it's going to pass. Same thing for organized interest groups. But for the average voter, it's a flat line. Which says it doesn't matter whether zero percent of the public believes something or 100% of the average voters believe something - it doesn't affect the probability that that thing will be enacted.”

Ifs Believe Matter Interest Lines Chance Support Groups Lows Percent Average Organized Flats Zero Voters Elites Probability Interest Groups

Author:Lawrence Lessig

“If you are a carrier of a particular set of genes, your probability of committing a violent crime goes up by eight hundred and eighty-two percent.”

Ifs Two Crime Particular Percent Hundred Eight Violent Genes Probability Eighty Carrier Violent Crimes

Book:Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain

Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain