And there was a deeper, less visible effect of the Truman loyalty program. Seeing its consequences for certain individuals and fearing its intrusion on their own lives, many in the government sought protection by strongly asserting their anti-Communism. In the public action that ensued, policy was based not on reality but, instinctively or deliberately, on personal caution...Those who urged a militant and sometimes military anti-Communism were considered sound, trustworthy and personally safe; those who questioned such a course were politically unsafe, possible even slightly disloyal.

Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.

To see economic policy as a problem of choice between rival ideologies is the greatest error of our time.

We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action of the machine we have created to serve us.

Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.

It's much easier to point out the problem than it is to say just how it should be solved.

War remains the decisive human failure.