Quotes About Accountability

It always makes me super nervous how many tech companies don't have data ethicists.

Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure.

To address questions of scientific responsibility does not necessarily imply that one needs technical competence in a particular field (e.g. biology) to evaluate certain technical matters.

I would not allow CIA to undertake activity that is immoral, even if it is technically legal.

Planning defines the particular place you want to be and how you intend to get there. It's a responsibility rather than a technique.

Meisner technique was different than anything I'd ever experienced. It's a really great way to be accountable to your craft and to yourself, but also it takes that kind of focus and dedication to learn anything.

Companies should have a due diligence process to determine the likelihood that their technologies will be used to carry out human rights abuses before doing business with a particular country or distributor.

A satellite has no conscience.

We can't blame the technology when we make mistakes.

If a kid is old enough to drive a car or buy a gun, isn't he old enough to be held personally responsible for what he does with his car or gun? Or if he's a teenager, should someone else be blamed because he isn't as enlightened as an eighteen-year-old?

First of all, a giant corporation probably shouldn't be being hacked by teenagers. I put that on the corporation, not the teenagers. Teenagers are going to do what teenagers are going to do - rebelling. But if they're able to hack a big corporation, that seems like the corporation should be better at security.

According to God's word, we haven't done a very good job concerning our little ones, nor our teens.

For those broadcasters who are less than responsible, the FCC needs to have sharper teeth to enforce the law.

Reading a teleprompter is not what makes you presidential. It's your actions that you take, and it's democracy.

Never tell anyone outside my staff that the Submarine Force and the First Air Fleet were responsible for the failure at Midway. The failure at Midway was mine.

When you tell the American people, 'Read my lips. No new taxes,' that should mean no new taxes.

Time will tell us what we did and didn't do.

I have to tell people that they are not responsible for their behavior. They're not creating it; they're not initiating anything. It's all found somewhere else. That's an awful lot to relinquish.

I'm gonna be blunt and plain, if one ever looks at me like that I'm gonna kill him and tell God he died.

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

I always tell people that you should only hire people to be on your team if you would work for them.

If I'm really telling someone what's coming ahead of them, then I'm going to say it, and I'm going to own those words.

My job is to do the best possible job for my country, and I wouldn't want someone else telling me what I should be doing in Canada.

If I owned a network, I would never let a guy just put people on without telling me who they are.