“In essence they are faced with the unpleasant choice of managing this over a period of time or dealing with this all at once after an earthquake and dealing with life loss and clean up to boot. That's what sets us off from other countries of the world. That is how we save lives in Southern California we do have building codes and we do enforce them.”
“It's worth remembering that every time that a new communication technology becomes popular there's usually a moral panic. When the telephone was introduced in the 19th century, there was widespread fear that it would decrease the authority of parents over their daughters, that men would be entering the house through the telephone line. That's something we are going through now with the Internet, the fear that strange men will enter the house through the DSL line.”
