Man is the only creature that dares to light a fire and live with it. The reason? Because he alone has learned to put it out. – Henry Jackson Vandyke,Jr.
If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire—then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience. – Sigmund Wollman, quoted by Robert Fulghum, Uh-Oh, 1991
Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a national culture. – William Irwin Thompson
The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages. – Charles Babbage
