On Risk

There is an old military adage that speaks to the issue of necessary redundancy in all planning: “Two is one, and one is non

Risk is never just a matter of mathematical odds; it is also, and always, a matter of who you happen to be demographically. The former is stark but implacable; the latter is frightening but open to potential partial correction

We can never stop accepting the next flight, the next mission. The last crash makes every hour in the air that much sweeter

Education is, all by itself, what Gert Biesta calls “a beautiful risk”—lighting a fire, not filling a bucket, as Yeats said