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.

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.

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.

May every soul reconnect to the Creator.

For this I weep all my daysand throughout my lifetime grievethat I swam from my own landsand came from familiar lands    towards these strange doors    to these foreign gates.

If you are ever inclined to pray for a missionary, do it at once, where ever you are. Perhaps he may be in great peril at that moment.

I've never been onstage in my life.

My music wasn't written by Mozart, Beethoven, Bach or Schubert. It's written by God and me. They go "a one and a two and up." We start on the downbeat. Bam! And that's where we got them.

... scientific research is compounded of ... empirical procedures, general speculative ideas, and mathematical or abstract reasoning.

You might be a redneck if you think that the styrofoam cooler is the greatest invention of all time.

The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance.

I decided to write category romance as I'd recently discovered them, and enjoyed them.

I learned early on that there are all sorts of stories I have no place telling.