Michael Dertouzos famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The angels and the devils are definitely within us, not within the machines we use.
-- Michael Dertouzos

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We made a big mistake 300 years ago when we separated technology and humanism. It's time to put the two back together.
-- Michael Dertouzos

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Technology is an inseparable part of humanity and for true progress to occur, the two must walk hand in hand, with neither one acting as servant to the other.
-- Michael Dertouzos

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The fairies break their dances And leave the printed lawn.
Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.
With its leaves so rich and heavy with elation and its crimson face made brighter with visions of divinity the shadow of a certain rose looks just like an angel eating light.
If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference.
The beneficial effect of state intervention, especially in the form of legislation, is direct, immediate, and so to speak, visible, while its evil effects are gradual and indirect and lay out of sight ... Hence the majority of mankind must almost of necessity look with undue favor upon governmental intervention.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.
We will not let terrorists change our way of life; we will not live in fear; and we will not undermine the civil liberties that characterize our Democracy.
Arbitrariness and true liberty are as distinct from each other that the empirical nature is distinct from the higher nature of man.
For as from the same piece of clay a potter may fashion either a pot or a tile, so the Devil may shape a witch into a wolf or a cat or even a goat, without subtracting from her and without adding to her at all. For this occurs just as clay is first molded into one, then shaped into another form, for the Devil is a potter and his witches are but clay.

Michael Dertouzos famous quotes

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