Existential Risk

Famous quotes containing the words existential and/or risk:

    One of the most horrible, yet most important, discoveries of our age has been that, if you really wish to destroy a person and turn him into an automaton, the surest method is not physical torture, in the strict sense, but simply to keep him awake, i.e., in an existential relation to life without intermission.
    —W.H. (Wystan Hugh)

    We saw the risk we took in doing good,
    But dared not spare to do the best we could
    Though harm should come of it
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)