Never globalize a problem if it can possibly be dealt with locally.

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.

Abiding does not mean sitting idly by. It means resting in the work, resting in the moment, resting in the truth, resting in the confidence that God is your provision.

You ought to ask God for a specific task. And He will grant you grace to accomplish it.

Excellence begins in the mind. Discipline yourself to be an excellent person at what you want. Everything big, once started little.

Judgement immobilizes, only hopeful love leaves an opening for God's alternative future.

Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations.

The people of Somalia just do not have a voice. They are to me the most forgotten people in the world.

I don't like rooms you never use or that are wasted space but I also like a sparseness and a cleanness.

I wouldn't want to enter into a relationship in which there was this inhibiting factor that said it can never be forever.

I'm never going to be the lead actor guy. I'm real quiet and real happy and real fortunate to keep working. It's what I do. It's like the circus. I ran away and joined it a long time ago.

If I test the car for a year I can be quite competitive the next season.