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Quote by Herbert Simon
There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands ou

There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of doing things. If were bad people we use technology for bad purposes and if were good people we use it for good purposes. – Herbert Simon

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Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent – not with how things are but with how they might be – in short, with design. – Herbert Simon

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Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones. – Herbert Simon

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One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use it. – Herbert Simon

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What Im trying to do is to at least raise a flag to the blinding light of technology. – Godfrey Reggio

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It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering. – Jaron Lanier

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I think we are living in selfish times. Im the first one to say that Im the most selfish. We live in the so-called first world, and we may be first in a lot of things like technology, but we are behind in empathy. – Javier Bardem

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If we had had the right technology back then, you would have seen Eva Braun on the Donahue show and Adolf Hitler on Meet the Press. – Ed Turner

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