But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere.

You cannot do only one thing.

(Technology reliability) x (Human reliability) = (System reliability)

No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.

In a competitive world of limited resources, total freedom of individual action is intolerable

People are the quintessential element in all technology... Once we recognize the inescapable human nexus of all technology our attitude toward the reliability problem is fundamentally changed.

Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons.

Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.

Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.

The only thing we can really count on in this uncertain world is human unreliability itself.

Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.

Make room for who you are by knowing who you’re not.

Leonard Cohen has a way with words and with humor that remind me to lighten up, which I appreciate very much.

I do love the ceremony of putting on a record but I don't have space for a vinyl collection.

Take on jobs, projects and challenges that frighten you. It's the best way to get rid of fear.

If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.

I had turned my anxiety into my profession.

What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon.

The study of celestial phenomena at radio wavelengths, radio astronomy came into being after the accidental discovery of cosmic radiation by radio engineer, Karl Jansky in 1933.

There cannot be stable money within an environment dominated by ideologies hostile to the preservation of economic freedom.

People see me doing something so all of the guys from my walk of life feel like if he can do it, I can do it. That just keeps spreading and spreading and spreading.