We do whatever we can to secure for ourselves certainty.
So in my adolescent determination to secure my future, I pledged with certainty that by the time I turned 21, I would somehow find a way to contact Denise Richards and confess my love.
"The science of securing something with 100percentt certainty doesn't exist," Hugh Thompson, chief technology officer at Blue Coat told a group of reporters last week at an RSA Roundtable event.
Yet we can't control everything and life is filled with twists and turns; sometimes our efforts to secure certainty leave us far from the life that we desire.
After all, once the bad guys know with certainty that Apple's products are not secure, they will want to use tools that are not susceptible to countermeasures by the U.S. government.
In one classical form of foundationalism, one secures first and foremost a basis of beliefs which one may see to be true with certainty.
"With certainty," I said.
The scientists cannot say with certainty now".
No one can predict with certainty.
