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Can vs. should4 quotes
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end... We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate. — Henry David Thoreau · 1854The technocratic imperative: "What can be done must be done." — Theodore Roszak · 1969We need to ask ourselves not only what computers can do, but what computers should do. — Satya Nadella · 2018To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it. — G.K. Chesterton · 1917Moral theory1 quote
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it. — G.K. Chesterton · 1917Morality1 quote
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it. — G.K. Chesterton · 1917Morality and technology1 quote
We need to ask ourselves not only what computers can do, but what computers should do. — Satya Nadella · 2018Technology1 quote
We need to ask ourselves not only what computers can do, but what computers should do. — Satya Nadella · 2018