Public-safety policies are properly established, not by well-intentioned engineers, but by legislators, bureaucrats, judges, and juries, in response to facts presented by expert advisers... It would be a poor policy indeed that relied upon the impulse of individual engineers.


Blaming Technology - Moral Blueprints (p. 174), St. Martin's Press. 1981

Samuel C. Florman Quotes

Public-safety policies are properly established, not by well-intentioned engineers, but by legislators, bureaucrats, judges, and juries, in response...

Public-safety policies are properly established, not by well-intentioned engineers, but by legislators, bureaucrats, judges, and juries, in response...

Public-safety policies are properly established, not by well-intentioned engineers, but by legislators, bureaucrats, judges, and juries, in response...

Public-safety policies are properly established, not by well-intentioned engineers, but by legislators, bureaucrats, judges, and juries, in response...