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

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.

Perhaps just to have loved was enough - just to have seen this world, and known it, through the eyes of love.

She tried to smile sympathetically, but with her face it wasn't quite possible.

Eventually you are answerable to yourself for your deeds. Be good and do good!

Also, vampires don't eat food. You never get to eat chocolate again. Ever. I'd rather die.

Asquith, when drunk, can make a better speech than any of us when sober.

My whole motto is get four yards, and if I get more than four, that's fine.

I love the work I do.

An esoteric or enlightened teacher of Buddhism is someone who has the ability to transfer power to another individual. A real empowerment is not just a ceremony.

Oh yeah, I'm definitely a tomboy! I love sports, hate dresses, don't own a single pair of high-heels, am not a fan of makeup, and I'm not afraid to get messy!

I knew the mass of men conceal'd Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal'd They would by other men be met With blank indifference.