Particular Purposes Quotes
- Once wide coercive powers are given to governmental agencies for particular purposes, such powers cannot be effectively controlled by democratic assemblies. — Friedrich August von Hayek
- A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying ï¬rst a phonograph and then a violin. The latter, he says, sounds terrible.… — Marvin Minsky
- Cripple God, who always desires more than he's able to have, and doesn't always realize this to begin with. Who has built clocks, but not… — Stanislaw Lem