Theodore Kaczynski Quotes

Complex systems work until the day that they don’t work.

If our system continues without modification involving environmental and social concern, we will face an economic and social break down.

When the gap between ideal and real becomes too wide, the system breaks down.

We are putting more and more power into a system which is less and less able to carry it reliably.

The timing was terrible, and having one disaster after another didn't help. I think the pictures on television of the way in which the disaster was handled also helped to turn off the public and Congress.

The world is sick of big IT things that don't work.

For something to collapse, not all systems have to shut down. In most cases, just one system is enough. For example, the human body is a system of systems. If just one system, such as the cardiovascular system, shuts down, death follows.

To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.

The tragic thing is that we're letting our transportation system crumble at the exact moment we need to build it up.

Everything that Bush touches turns to manure in public policy.

Virtually nothing Barack Obama has done has left America or the world better since he became president. Nearly everything he has touched has been made worse.

So all the system was running down and collapsing. Mrs. Thatcher became the leader of the Conservative Party in February 1975, and she clearly wanted to strike out and do something different.

I think anytime that you go to the extreme of any mode of economics, be it capitalism or communism, you have these feedback mechanisms that make the system turn in on itself.

The short story is very good at looking at shadow psychologies and how the system breaks down underneath.

Several highly improbable and therefore unforeseen failures.

It does no harm to throw the occasional man overboard, but it does not do much good if you are steering full speed ahead for the rocks.

The Titanic was a great ship, but is was captained by one depicted as being arrogant, and warnings of an iceberg were not heeded. America is like that great ship. Unfortunately, at the helm may be a proud captain. And black people could become the iceberg that causes the sinking of this great ship called the United States of America.

This system isn't working.

Everything the Bushites touch is screwed up.

If the current international order proves too brittle to change, it will simply crumble.

When a leader doesn't do his or her job, it isn't just a problem with the person. They take their whole organization down.

There will always be some who, for whatever reason, find themselves dependent on the charity of others. But when half the population is along for the ride, the system becomes dangerously out of balance. Things fall apart.

Communism can't survive the captivating allure of capitalism.

I'm the cog in the middle that makes it all turn together. And if you pull me out, a lot of other cogs start to fall.

If we don't get a hold of what we owe Americans who are providing services to our veterans, then the entire system collapses.