Software−related accidents are usually caused by flawed requirements.

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

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. .

The only period where there is lesser competition for opportunities are during times of difficulties.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman because he'll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.

If we have only one that can govern, and we chose him... does that mean we're not democratic?

Travellers with closed minds can tell us little except about themselves

I try to parent equally, but I think little girls are a little more sensitive.

There is a time to deliberate... and a time to act. Learn to recognize which is which, and act accordingly.

Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!

The sun shines. Readers read.

Stop bullshitting yourself. You're not satisfied. You lowered your standards and are settling for a lot less.

Civilization is being poisoned by its own waste products.