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.

It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.

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.

The population problem has no technical solution; it requires a fundamental extension in morality.

Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?

Thou shalt not transgress the carrying capacity

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