Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that once it is competently programmed and working smoothly—it is completely honest.
–Isaac Asimov, Change! Seventy-One Glimpses of the Future, 1981, p.17.
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Marcus Aurelius’ Advice for Twitter Users
When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they can’t tell good from evil.
–Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book II, trans. by Gregory Hays
We Can Only See A Short Distance Ahead . . .
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
-Alan Turing, Computing Machinery and Intelligence, 1950.
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that once it is competently programmed and working smoothly—it is completely honest.
–Isaac Asimov, Change! Seventy-One Glimpses of the Future, 1981
Milton Friedman on the Concentration of Power
Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power. Government is necessary to preserve our freedom, it is an instrument through which we can exercise our freedom; yet by concentrating power in political hands, it is also a threat to freedom. Even though the men who wield this power initially be of good will and even though they be not corrupted by the power they exercise, the power will both attract and form men of a different stamp.
–Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom, 1962.
The More Numerous The Laws . . .
The more numerous laws, the more corrupt the government.
-Tacitus, Annals, Book III, 27