Quotes About Ethic

central tenets of the Hacker Ethic: the free flow of information, particularly information that helped fellow hackers understand, explore, and build systems.

Hacker Ethic: like lines of code in a systems program, compromise should be bummed to the minimum.

Years of working in the free-flow world of electronics had infused Marsh with the Hacker Ethic, and he saw school as an inefficient, repressive system. Even when he worked at a radical school with an open classroom, he thought it was a sham, still a jail.

the majority of our most serious environmental problems start right here, at home, and if we are to solve these problems, we need an environmental ethic that will tell us as much about using nature as about not using it.

A land ethic for tomorrow should be as honest as Thoreau's Walden, and as comprehensive as the sensitive science of ecology. It should stress the oneness of our resources and the live-and-help-live logic of the great chain of life. If, in our haste to "progress," the economics of ecology are disregarded by citizens and policy makers alike, the result will be an ugly America.

Caring requires paying attention, seeing, listening, responding with respect. Its logic is contextual, psychological. Care is a relational ethic, grounded in a premise of interdependence. But it is not selfless.

Do your job and demand your compensation - but in that order.

We must live according to the principle of a land ethic. The alternative is that we shall not live at all.

You must rely on reason and science," she said, "and be guided by a likewise rational ethic of human concern. You must do your utmost as individuals to improve your understanding, ability and compassion.

readers to consider Jesus as their wise teacher. Jesus the rabbi insists that true faith needs to be shown in deeds of mercy and justice. He sums up his ethic with a revision of Old Testament emphases: "Pure religion, undefiled before God our Father, is this — to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world" (James 1:27).

The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort.

él estaba cumpliendo con su deber, estaba haciendo no lo que quería sino lo que tenía que hacer

The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.

Meaning well is a poor defense

Labour is not a commodity, or a standard, or a means to an ulterior end, but an end in itself.

The real nature of an ethic is that it does not become an ethic unless and until it goes into action.

No secular state ever existed and none would exist until the end of the French Revolution, and so we understand that America was built on the Judeo-Christian ethic and we believe that this nominee is going to see to it that those truths are upheld.

If you do more than your share you'd better want to: otherwise, you're paying yourself in a currency recognized nowhere else.

In some mystical way, Lenny seemed to ennoble work more than anyone I had ever met"Also in "Stories and Scripts:an Anthology

What he likes most about proprietary trading is that it requires considerably less time than other high-paying professions; in other words it is perfectly compatible with his non-middle-class work ethic. Trading forces someone to think hard; those who merely work hard generally lose their focus and intellectual energy. In addition, they end up drowning in randomness; work ethics, Nero believes, draw people to focus on noise rather than the signal

It's hell when you're too good to make money.

Get a man who works for nothing and you get a man who just likes to hang around. I

It was Pidge's observation that toleration rather than love was what kept her parents together. They were yoked like horses to a plow and they moved through life pulling something neither could see that kept them a safe distances from each other. There was something both admirable and sad in their marital work ethic, and Pidge promised herself she wouldn't settle like they had. It was a promise she broke.

The single most important thing that I feel responsible for is that the company cherishes the work.