"Prove our new train signaling system is as secure as the old one. If you can, you'll get your degree, if you can't, you find someone else to sponsor your research/degree and we find someone else to do the proof." -- Deutsche Bahn (government held national train company in Germany) in around 2001 to a friend of mine (they and him found "someone else")
"Noone has died from the new train signaling system that has not been put into effect yet. Therefore, we can conclude that the new train signaling system is safer than the old existing system."
