What features of your daily life do you expect to be improved by a further increase in population?

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.

It is dangerous to become attached to a du Lac. He will break your heart, and you will not recover.

When the puppy licked my hand, we all knew he was the one for us

It is better to err on the side of feeling.

I don't know what I'd do without you. There's no one else to look after me. And it's not just that. I sometimes think you're the only person who really knows me. I only feel normal when I'm with you.

If you believe in “luck”, always let it be good luck. Always choose to be "lucky", rather than "luckless".Be "happy", rather than "hapless".

My every thought has the power either to wound or heal. I will use my thoughts wisely and respect their power.

In smart society men are jealous of one another after the fashion of women.

Time washes clean, love's wounds unseen.

More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

There just comes a time when it's so clear that moving on is the best decision.