The greatest folly is to accept expert statements uncritically. At the very least, we should always seek another opinion.

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.

The most fragile, unhappy people destine themselves to live lives of constantly reminding themselves to be happy.

Market rewards you as per your perception.

Will people not be thrown face down into Hell only on account of the harvest of their tongue?

There are problems in this universe for which there are no answers. Nothing. Nothing can be done.

Secrets can take many forms. They can be shocking or silly or soulful. They can connect us with our deepest humanity, or with people we'll never meet again.

There is no best teacher. Life itself is the teacher. There is no best method. All that matters is that it works.

The year I turned 26, as the head of my own brokerage firm, I made $49 million, which really pissed me off because it was three shy of a million a week.

I hope that doing truthful portrayals of people in a variety of circumstances gives people a kind of subterranean link to those characters.

As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.

Everybody in American seems in a rush to catch a train.