"Pay him what was promised", said the caliph. "And put out his eyes."

What in Gods name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine?

To go faster you must slow down.

Extremism. It is an almost infallible sign — a kind of death-rattle — when a human institution is forced by its members into stressing those and only those factors which are identificatory, at the expense of others which it necessarily shares with competing institutions because human beings belong to all of them.

"Pay him what was promised", said the caliph. "And put out his eyes."

It's common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it were on your side and not theirs.

After all, the rich get richer and the poor get children. Which is okay so long as lots of them starve in infancy.