I typically come across a few excellent quotes that really resonate with what I am presently thinking about whenever I go on a paper reading binge.  Here are some interesting ones that I found recently:

Every year (or, perhaps, every day), some new industry or institution discovers that it, too, has a risk problem.  It can, if it wishes, repeat the learning process that its predecessors have undergone.  Or, it can attempt to short-circuit that process, and start with its product, namely the best available approaches to risk communication. – Baruch Fischhoff (1995)

Contemporary approaches to disaster reduction need to become more concerned with human-to-human relations, such as conflict resolution and consensus building among people, rather than human-to-nature relations. – Katsuya Yamori (2008)

References

Fischhoff, G. (1995). “Risk Perception and Communication Unplugged: Twenty Years of Process.” Risk Analysis, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 137-145 (doi link).

Yamori, K. (2008). “Narrative Mode of Thought in Disaster Reduction: A Crossroad for Narrative and Gaming Approaches.” in Sugiman, T., Gergen, K. J., Wagner, W. and Yamada, Y. eds. Meaning in Action: Constructions, Narratives and Representations.  Springer, pp. 241-252 (doi link).

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