Every plausible policy must be followed by the question 'And then what?'

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.

Ann: You didn’t cause my miscarriages. But you are committed to transforming me to be like you.

We are all the construction of a story and it is only at the end that we can assess the value of the plot. ("Everybody his story")

ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude . . .

You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.

A director should cast a person who fits into their script.

The world has physical limits that we are already encountering, but our economy operates as if no physical limits exist.

I think we musicians are emissaries. Every time we go before the public, we're there to make converts.

What we've had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we're doing - the music.

Borlaug would be one figure that I think fundamentally changed India, China, all of Southeast Asia, and gave them the time to be able to build on other things.

If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects; he does not try to compose, and soon he gets monotonous.