There is nothing more dangerous than a shallow thinking compassionate person

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.

In a competitive world of limited resources, total freedom of individual action is intolerable

Numeracy: 1. The art of putting numbers to things, that is, assigning amounts to variables in order that practical decisions may be reach. 2. That aspect of education (beyond mere literacy) which takes account of quantitative aspects of reality.

(Technology reliability) x (Human reliability) = (System reliability)

Economists (and others) who are satisfied with nature-free equations develop a dangerous hubris about the potency of our species

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.