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.

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

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.

You either see it or you don't

Yes, I am a prisoner of sorts, but my prison isn't the house. It's my own thoughts that lock me up!

Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to lose.

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.

You sleep with people all the time that you hate.

I can't stand making records.

I am a victim of my own behavior.

I was a girl from Massapequa, New York. I grew up in Massapequa. I lived in a basement with one window.

Flow. Be adaptable. Be sensitive like water, feel the other so you can attune and harmonize with your partner.

If any of these women had been here instead of Nynaeve, the world would have ended.