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. .

Highly reliable components are not necessarily safe. .

Time takes it all in the end...

FRACTURED FACTIONSMany cults are created by the uncontrollable egos of religious zealots

Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?

Under this scientific and moral pressure, the Canadian government conceded publicly that the use of these weapons in Vietnam was, in their view, a contravention of the Geneva Protocol.

One scientific epoch ended and another began with James Clerk Maxwell.

Happiness: We rarely feel it. I would buy it, beg it, steal it, Pay in coins of dripping blood For this one transcendent good.

The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments.

Bodybuilding isn’t 90 minutes in the gym..it’s a lifestyle

Nonviolence, applied to very large masses of mankind, is a new experiment in the history of the world.

Golf is not about the quality of your good shots, it is about the quality of your bad shots.