In all of history, we have found just one cure for error—a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against self-deception. That antidote is criticism.

One of the rules I try to follow is that normal people are going to be involved even in heroic events

In the book, America had already been weakened by bio terror plagues before waves of selfish violence took down the rest. But the real enemy was the kind of male human being who nurses fantasies of violent glory at the expense of his fellow citizens.

The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

Creative people see Prometheus in a mirror, never Pandora.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

You don't have conversations with microprocessors. You tell them what to do, then helplessly watch the disaster when they take you literally!