Quotes About Ethics

A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.

The danger of computers becoming like humans is not as great as the danger of humans becoming like computers.

Computers are not good or bad; they are powerful.

When I was in prison, a Colombian drug lord, offered me $5 million in cash to manipulate a computer system so that he would be released. I turned him down.

Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields

I was addicted to hacking, more for the intellectual challenge, the curiosity, the seduction of adventure; not for stealing, or causing damage or writing computer viruses.

The computer brings out the worst in some people.

The computer is here to stay, therefore it must be kept in its proper place as a tool and a slave, or we will become sorcerer's apprentices, with data data everywhere and not a thought to think.

If computers take over, it will serve us right.

Do what's good for humans, modeled on how humans already do things; ignore what's convenient for computers.

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

Unless mankind redesigns itself by changing our DNA through altering our genetic makeup, computer-genera ted robots will take over our world.

Being able to break security doesn't make you a hacker anymore than being able to hotwire cars makes you an automotive engineer.

You could have all the computer chips ever in the world and you won't create a consciousness.

Don't damage computer systems you break into (including crashing them); don't change the information in those systems (except for altering logs to cover your tracks); and share information.

Computer science is one of the worst things that ever happened to either computers or to science.

Writing a computer virus program is child's play. Any fool can do it, which is why the silly little twerps who do have nothing to be proud of.

The collapse of Enron was devastating to tens of thousands of people and shook the public's confidence in corporate America.

Doctors still retain a high degree of public confidence because they are perceived as healers. Should lawyers not be healers? Healers, not warriors? Healers, not procurers? Healers, not hired guns?

If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.

Every time you buy something consider it a vote of confidence in the company that produced it.

A business of high principle generates greater drive and effectiveness because people know that they can do the right thing decisively and with confidence.

No one who deserves confidence ever solicits it.

National markets are held together by shared values and confidence in certain minimum standards. But in the new global market, people do not yet have that confidence.