Incommensurables cannot be compared.

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.

It is more informative how we treat things with no defined legal rights, than how we treat things with legal rights.

You are the home I point to that lives in my chest.

Where in the wide history of the world do we find art created by the excessively wealthy, powerful, or educated?

I think all families are creepy in a way.

I'm cool with being the sad guy, but I don't want to be the guy who nobody wants around because he's so miserable.

As a scientist, I don't believe anything. Science shouldn't use the word belief. There are things more likely and less likely. Science can say nothing with absolute certainty.

If at first you don't succeed, pay someone else to do it for you.

Washington is awash in post-war testosterone.

I think the only thing I've got going for me as an actor specifically is the fact that I can change.

Everything was quiet, a strange sort of quiet that felt like an unfinished sentence.