No excuses; those were just weak.
Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don't have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.
Most of the bright people don't work for you - no matter who you are.
We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.
Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.
There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
Given the incredible power of these new technologies, shouldn't we be asking how we can best coexist with them? And if our own extinction is a likely, or even possible, outcome of our technological development, shouldn't we proceed with great caution?
Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do
Yeats, you need ten years in the library, but I have need of ten years in the wilderness.
It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches.
As I stood and watched the mists slowly rising this morning I wondered what view was more beautiful than this.