Quotes About Ethics

Gates was, after all, a serial stealer of computer time, and he had manipulated passwords to hack into accounts from eighth grade through his sophomore year at Harvard. Indeed, when he claimed in his letter that he and Allen had used more than $40,000 worth of computer time to make BASIC, he omitted the fact that he had never actually paid for that time and that much of it was on Harvard's military-supplied computer, funded by American taxpayers.

We believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone," Jobs declared in an email to a customer. "Folks who want porn can buy an Android.

The juice goes out of Christianity when it becomes too based on faith rather than on living like Jesus or seeing the world as Jesus saw it

subrayaba que nunca se debía crear una empresa para hacerse rico. La meta debía ser producir algo en lo que creyeras y crear una compañía duradera».

It's best not to mess with karma." Why

Even thirty years later, reflecting back on the competition, Jobs cast it as a holy crusade: "IBM was essentially Microsoft at its worst. They were not a force for innovation; they were a force for evil. They were like ATT or Microsoft or Google is." Unfortunately

The thrust of his parent's views, at least when applied to the situation of Mileva Maric rather than Marie Winteler, was that a wife was a luxury, affordable only when a man was making a comfortable living. I have a low opinion of that view of a relationship between a man and wife, he [Einstein] told Maric, Because it makes the wife and the prostitute distinguishable only insofar as the former is able to secure a life-long contract.

And we would relate to the way he tried to balance, sometimes uneasily, the pursuit of reputation, wealth, earthly virtues, and spiritual values.2

It's good to have strong opinions about gene engineering in humans, but it's even better if you know what a gene is.

Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life."25

The Ethics of Genetic Control. "As we learn to direct mutations medically, we should do so. Not to control when we can is immoral.

It's harder, and less glorious, to realize that legitimate values sometimes conflict with one another, and they have to be balanced. This is not a talent that is exalted on talk radio or cable news shows. But the need to calibrate a proper balance among opposing principles is evident in every issue we face today, from abortion to heath-care reform to affirmative action.

The situation may be expressed by an image: science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Industry and frugality," he wrote in describing the theme of Poor Richard's almanacs, are "the means of procuring wealth and thereby securing virtue.

Someday we may consider it unethical not to use germline editing to alleviate human suffering.

The crimes of the Germans are really the most abominable ever to be recorded in the history of the so-called civilized nations," he wrote the physicist Otto Hahn. "The conduct of the German intellectuals—viewed as a class—was no better than that of the mob.

I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. And the Scripture assures me that at the last day we shall not be examined by what we thought, but what we did . . . that we did good to our fellow creatures.

We now have the power to control our genetic future, which is awesome and terrifying.

We must remember that this is a very small star," he responded, "and probably some of the larger and more important stars may be very virtuous and happy."73

when truth has fair play, it will always prevail over falsehood.

Josiah practiced the art, which his son would perfect, of marrying public virtue with private profit: he made money by selling candles to the night watchmen he oversaw.

The world needs less faith and more love and nobility.

My lot is that I must be the first decent human being

Men who turn their faith into a business owe all of us a steak dinner now and then.