We see only what we have names for.

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.

You can't argue with the dead, no matter what you say, they always have the last word.

I loved him and I would love him until every fibre in my body was gone and had turned to dust, but even when my bones had joined the earth, the memory of our love would live on beyond the ages.

I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined.

What nourishes me also destroys me.

I have heard a greater storm in a boiling pot.

If I had wanted to ice the little toad, I would have done it a long time ago.

What the head makes cloudy the heart makes clear

People who say that money isn't the most important thing in the world are usually broke.

To sum up the state of architecture in America: ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent.

turn and turn and turn again you see the what, but not the when remedy and wrong entwine and so they form a single vine