Quotes · Skopia

4 quotes

SortEditorial Year Length

Topic·Can vs. should✕clear

Autobiography and memoir

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

Walden · 1854

★ 5.5

The technocratic imperative: "What can be done must be done."

Theodore Roszak

The Making of the Counter Culture · 1969

★ 5.2

We need to ask ourselves not only what computers can do, but what computers should do.

2018

★ 3.6

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

G.K. Chesterton

1917

★ 3.5