Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.

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.

It seems that nonsense is the only sensible recourse to remedy the nonsense of society’s accepted normalcy

I was probably six years old when I first sang before an audience.

The first Garbage record sounds bizarre, it's not a pristine sounding album. We ran everything through stomp boxes and through samplers and that definitely gave it a vibe.

Santiago Nasar had often told me that the smell of closed-in flowers had an immediate relation to death for him.

A user interface is well-designed when the program behaves exactly how the user thought it would.

Always remember honey. A good motto is: Take all you can get and give as little as possible.

They will try to enter Baghdad, and I think this is where their graveyard will be.

I'm not the greatest communicator. I kind of internalize a lot.

I've always been driven to buck the system.

I do not agree that an age of pleasure is no compensation for a moment of pain.