The greatest folly is to accept expert statements uncritically. At the very least, we should always seek another opinion.
Garrett HardinUsing the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable.
Garrett HardinThe only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.
Garrett HardinPeople 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.
Garrett Hardin