The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort.

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.

All happiness depends on courage and work.

The grace of service is the spirit of belonging.

I caught him by the collar and dumped him into the nearest bin."That's where people like YOU belong!" I spat at him as his legs wiggled in the air. "In the garbage!" - Chapter 2: Miserable Torture

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.

There's a very wild side to me, but it's calming down.

One of the most significant design principles is to omit the unimportant in order to emphasize the important.

I'm from Israel, so America has no limits. I started a record label, and then I started managing other artists, like Liza Minelli.

Books are all right, but dead men's brains are no good unless you mix a live one's with them.

Every day that we spent not improving our products was a wasted day.

I would like to think that we have made much more progress, that we've come much further, to have someone like a Donald Trump to emerge as the nominee of a major political party.