Quotes About Responsibility

You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to you.

Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquence.

I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.

When men don't fear God, they give themselves to evil.

The more a nation gets into darkness, the more it's going to hate the light. The more it's going to run from the light. And we have a generation of people who have given themselves to darkness, and they've embraced atheism, because it gets them away from moral responsibility to God.

When the biblical premise of man being evil by nature is forsaken, society begins to believe that a criminal isn't really responsible for his crimes. People believe instead that societal conditions and life's circumstances are responsible, so the criminal gets a slap on the hand for violent crime since evil is no longer called evil. The lawbreaker is deemed rather to be sick or insane, and he receives rehabilitative treatment rather than punishment.

have always said, and always will say, that the studious perusal of the Sacred Volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands. 1743-1826 THIRD PRESIDENT OF THE U.S. AUTHOR OF THE U.S. DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

Montag, you're looking at a coward. I saw the way things were going, a long time back. I said nothing. I'm one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to the "guilty," but I did not speak and thus became guilty myself.

I believe that if you hire a man to do a job, you ought to get out of the way and let him do it.

I have always believed that each man makes his own happiness and is responsible for his own problems.

We come from goldfish, essentially, but that [doesn't] mean we turned around and killed all the goldfish. Maybe [the AIs] will feed us once a week…. If you had a machine with a 10 to the 18th power IQ over humans, wouldn't you want it to govern, or at least control your economy? —SETH SHOSTAK

Given that self-improving strong AI cannot be recalled, Yudkowsky points out that we need to "get it right the first time," and that its initial design must have "zero nonrecoverable errors."45

People often go through three stages in considering the impact of future technology: awe and wonderment at its potential to overcome age-old problems; then a sense of dread at a new set of grave dangers that accompany these novel technologies; followed finally by the realization that the only viable and responsible path is to set a careful course that can realize the benefits while managing the dangers.

While I probably should have mentioned that you shouldn't try this in a real moving car (but then I assume you have already mastered the rule that you shouldn't drive with your eyes closed), that's not really the key problem here.

Our sole responsibility is to produce something smarter than we are; any problems beyond that are not ours to solve …

Por alguna razón, la gente que tiene muchísimo dinero suele ser la que menos paga. Eso me pone malo, y entonces pago aún más, para que no se me note.

No conseguir cumplir una tarea, la que fuera, me hacía sentir en deuda con el mundo entero y sobre todo con lo poco o mucho que yo fuera.

Shouldering responsibility When

I also seem to recall that whatever my job was, I wasn't very good at it. I felt like I was staring down the barrel of a gun and I didn't like what I saw at the end of it: a loan for a car, a mortgage for a flat, weekly shopping, trips to the cinema and living for the weekends. They were all metaphors for a set of handcuffs, chaining me to the monotony of a job I hated,

Before my mother would give you that dime allowance, she'd want you to do a little chore around the house. Like build a porch.

The more I go through parenting, the more I say I owe my mother an apology.

Everyone should have kids. They are the greatest joy in the world. But they are also terrorists. You'll realize this as soon as they are born and they start using sleep deprivation to break you.

I lived at home till I was 29.

My wife gets all the money I make. I just get an apple and clean clothes every morning.