Highly reliable components are not necessarily safe. .

Safety is an emergent property of systems, not a component property.

Software−related accidents are usually caused by flawed requirements.

Reliability engineers often assume that reliability and safety are synonymous, but this assumption is true only in special cases.

What [software] must not do is not the inverse of what it must do. .

Requirement completeness: Requirements are sufficient to distinguish the desired behavior of the software from that of any other undesired program that might be designed. .

Confronting information that directly challenges existing beliefs can be psychologically threatening to people, especially if the information challenges their sense of identity.

I don't want to be rich yet live a life of unhappiness, but I also don't want to be poor because I have never seen happiness in poverty.

Adventures are what happens when an event is flawed, a mark of imperfection.

Even as children they had been good in fact, but also in order to be seen as good. There was something disturbingly like hypocrisy about it all...

If I were capable of assisting someone, I would do it in a manner that would cause the person seeking assistance to work, so he assists himself.

A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory.

Your brain does not understand what you are capable of. There is way more inside of you than you can imagine.

Who hears the fishes when they cry?

The boys are so well-rounded, they're so self-disciplined, there is so much camaraderie

Poverty is the lack of light.