"It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter."

-- Nathaniel Borenstein

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“Alas! is even love too weak To unlock the heart, and let it speak? Are even lovers powerless to reveal To one another what indeed they feel? I knew the mass of men conceal'd Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal'd They would by other men be met With blank indifference, or with blame reproved; I knew they lived and moved Trick'd in disguises, alien to the rest Of men, and alien to themselves - and yet The same heart beats in every human breast!”
“What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things.”
“It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.”
“What causes us to think of prayer as the last option rather than the first? I can think of two reasons: feelings of independence and feelings of insignificance.”
“You have heard that Christ said, 'My words are spirit and they are life'. So are my words spirit and life; they will burn their way into your brain and you will never get away from them!”
“I think everybody should like everybody.”
“Credit is the air that financial markets breathe, and when the air is poisoned, there's no place to hide.”

Source : Charles R. Morris (2008). “The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash”, Public Affairs
“A goal without a plan is a wish. What's your plan? It's on you, because you have to do all the work.”

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