Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.

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.

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.

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.

King Kofi Kingston, that does have a nice ring to it. But not so much the initials, though.

The difference between psychedelia and digitalia ages will seem like a smooth blending in years to come and will be a mere blip on the screen.

I can't afford to die; I'd lose too much money.

All memory is fiction.

Preaching is not a profession, it's a passion! If a man can't preach with passion he shouldn't preach at all.

I hated the soup and felt little for the can.

It's no big thing, but you make big things out of little things sometimes.

I think, a secret love is something none of your friends would understand. And it's like a fairy tale, but more serious.